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At the very least it should be the default expectation. Otherwise, the whole group is constantly negotiating with each other just to do...

There needs to be some kind of understanding, either at session 0 or whenever, why the characters are adventuring together and what the...

Well, that's the thing; I actually have a fairly high tolerance there. A lot of things that will work people up I just don't really...

I don't care about their thoughts per se. But when they do that kind of stuff where its blatantly obvious there's no reason but the...

Yup. I saw some of this same sort of thing in the playtest for Silver Age Sentinels back in the day, where the designer's tendency to...

Honestly, for me sometimes its less about any actual benefit gained than just the player going right to the metagame knowledge...

If that's real, that's one funeral home owner with a really dark sense of humor.

I guess that turns on how you become a spellcasting cleric, a wizard or a paladin. All those seem to have some knowledge baked into...

Sure, but, to me, this is a table issue, not a game issue. It needs to be handled at the table, not in the game. It indicates...

Even in OD&D you aren't staying first level long, and again, if your idea of an "everyman" includes even a first level D&D wizard (where...

Sure, and that's legit. But if you're looking at a monster write-up that doing exactly what it looks like the (relatively traditional)...

Oddly enough, I think that one is driven by people hitting adversarial players previously themselves, specifically players of rogue...

I suspect he's assuming a combination mentioned in a published adventure (that may be specific for reasons of clues provided...

I don't know that "common folk" and "D&D wizard" have any meaningful overlap from where I sit, and as I said I'm not convinced its much...

Calling them trolls may be part of the point; its a term that both predates D&D and has associations, and that may be what you're...