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I think you're missing that to some people "This roll does nothing and is boring" is still superior to "If I make this roll something...

Of course part of that is the hostility in much of the OSR to mechanics substituting for player decision-making, but there's nothing...

I kind of do think of that as "cinematic" when it happens frequently--the word "frequently" is important here. "Cinematic" is relevant...

Well, there are a couple of ways to handle that that still matter: 1. You can, of course, simply assume the healing is done as long as...

Well, part of the problem is that sometimes there's process where failure is providing information that may be desirable for changing...

I think you're not quite understanding what I'm talking about. Most rolls in most games can, and probably with at least some of its...

Its a perceptual gap; in many respects PbtA games are trying to represent cinematic fiction, and in cinematic fiction things go at least...

Within the context of this thread people were making points about roleplaying games in general (that is what brought me to this thread...

The GM, who is presumably using a system that has nonhuman options, should have figured out how they work in the setting in the first...

Oh, I'm aware. I just think some people, particularly in the PbtA adjacent sphere, don't understand how much the baked in "complication...

It's fine to disagree. But I'm not calling anything the "one true way", I'm defining my own usage of the terms. Which I said myriad...

It was an example of where I think the line gets fuzzy. Some people would probably find the village-as-encounter odd too.

Some people just don't want that from their game experience. Its not fundamentally any different than why some people don't want to...

so, while playing elite dangerous I finished up listening to Red Thunder via audible, and decided to listen to Dragon Day with Hayley...

And there are plenty of people outside the D&D sphere who have some issues with 5e but don't think a lot of the OSR choices are actually...