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The problem isn’t that fantasy realistic doesn’t track actual reality. The problem is two-fold: 1. GMs that claim their actions are...

That's your choice, but I'm not required to use yours. I can sympathize with your view that its too strong a term, but I suspect any...

Except that well-constructed mechanics are specifically a thing IN ORDER TO get people on the same page. Like...that's one of the most...

For me, the difference is that acceptance/allowance/etc. (I've used more than one term in the thread, my apologies!) has an expiration...

Hmmm. That doesn't seem to be showing, Danny, even if I click on it.

Also put me down as another anecdotal record of successful gaming with players and their SOs. I think @Ruin Explorer nailed it by...

Hmm. My wife and I have been friends for over 30 years, and she is one of the people who played in the first campaigns I ever ran...

If you make someone's experience worse, that's harm. It doesn't need to leave them bleeding on the floor.

At which point, as I've largely done at this point you just--stop.

Honestly, the thought leader crap on LinkedIn is already so dopey, AI can't really degrade things too much in that space.

That's their problem (well, and the problem to some degree of the people they insist on it from). But it doesn't change that you can't...

I can see some arguments there's a certain degree of distance in parts of PF2e, though I don't think its as severe as the 4e version in...

And there's why sometimes all you can do is walk away.

While I get some of what you're talking about, IME there were only a very few 4e builds where you could just "click the buttons" without...

I could actually see it happening with a long city campaign in a fairly corrupt city.