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You forgot "constantly telling other players what to do and/or complaining when said player doesn't listen to them."

They changed from a state of uncertainty (helpful or unhelpful, map or spell or secret passage or...) to a state of certainty (helpful map).

Well with what kids can consume these days on their phones Darksun is a nothing burger lol.

Not in the fiction, but in reality, yes, it does cause that...it is a partial cause, the imposition of chance doesn't stop that. Now...

That is an excellent explanation of why we (or at least I) don't like it. Well done!

Limiting the world's fiction to the GM is a feature, not a bug. I want to explore the GM's world, I don't want to create things outside...

many of us who are taking this stance i believe, (though i cannot be able to claim to speak for everyone,) have this opinion from the...

My response is that you're drastically overestimating how much people care what you think on this topic because we all have different...

The fact that nothing existed before the player decided what it was going to be if they succeeded on their check is the issue for some...

D&D is still something of a mystery and a nerd thing amongst most of my generation (X). And it's like anything else - people are mostly...

Yes...the extent of my comment is that the way the player changes the fiction is different from how the declare they attack an orc. This...

I think what is being suggested is that, to be comfortable with the fiction and with play, there really should be a fiction of what...

In character, it is reasonable to change things happening now or in the future, but not in the past. So the character's hopes changing...

Hence rating system. Art should be offensive and push boundaries imho. Leave it up to the consumer to make the decision what's...

It still leads itself to a lot of subjectivity. Even if we all agree on what's problematic there's no objective way to decide how to...