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If it made sense to them that PCs who already didn't have boring lives needed that phrase and technique in order to not have boring...

Can you accept that other people have a different experiences, preferences and point of view than you do? Maybe you feel more connected...

It's ok if you don't have this experience. Some of us do. Some of us don't. That scenario doesn't go particularly far. But I would...

If the cook is observing the lock picking attempt does she only scream because the idiot should have been easily able to pick the lock...

I can't tell if this is just being pedantic or something else. Perhaps an example will help illuminate. Attack rolls in D&D. Are they...

The post you were quoting does not set down a standard of no player (not PC) control over the world. It explains one way why that kind...

The fiction is affected. Sometimes maybe just not as much as you'd like it to be. If there's people there to startle, sure. But if...

That's just it - the cook should not be in any way related to the lock picking! Two unrelated binary options giving four possible...

Game play is a huuuuuuge indicator. Backstory is a huuuuuuuuuge indicator. What the player has told the group about his character is...

Read the last few posts I exchanged with pemerton and get back to me if you still have these questions.

The PC/player distinction I brought up earlier. If the player is clearly different than the PC because the player is exercising control...

This seems to be one of those hard-line sticking points. Some of us think that being asked to add details from your character's...

I was replying to @The Firebird, who (at least as I understood things) used the word "gamist" in the sense of playing for...

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Your posts can come across as "this is the way" whether you intend it or not. You include things like "...true of some folks’ processes...