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If I didn't want system to serve the game purposes, I'd go back to freeform roleplaying.

Also, we are not talking about you cooking dinner for your family with modern grocery stores and cooking equipment. This is a...

Folks just so you know, bad logic bugs me even when my "team" uses it. I will point it out even if I agree with the overall position of...

Sure, "jerk optimizers"/munchkins absolutely do thrive in easy games. That's why Monty Haul games tended to be associated with them...

The first half of that's easy to do, but the second not so much, especially given how schematic a lot of non-combat mechanics in a lot...

There's a problem in some games that its not clear what to do with prisoners. If you're in an ongoing travelling adventure, or one...

I think we're on the same page.

I've absolutely stepped on toes that were not even in my niche. It wasn't intended in the slightest. Sometimes I've openly apologized...

And that's an excuse often pulled out by someone who wants to play the Brave lone Truthteller. If you think people on this board...

Well, in the past I wouldn't likely have had the statblocks there; in my non-digital days, I'd just have had the framing notes and...

Contrary to what some people will tell you, a large enough collection anecdotes are data unless you distrust the whole population the...

If it's intentional, yeah, it's a jerk thing. It's not always intentional--at least, I've seen instances that I didn't think were.

"Why" is because they consider their play cycle about simplifying and resolving a situation, not making it worse. They don't want...

One can talk about IRL battles being morale-based, etc; that touches on the "combat as war" vs " combat as sport" mindsets. Modern DnD...

The problem of course is that there's no assurance that the GM won't just add the lieutenant in to the later fight when he otherwise...