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It might be because my tables are made up primarily of other DMs, but if we see someone make a rules mistake, we call it right out. The...

If I spot a rules mistake mid-stream I'll normally point it out right then, regardless of whose favor it's in. Unless the particular GM...

I tend to do it immediately because its too common for people to view it as precedent. Unless I just flat out miss it of course (I just...

May be, but if the game system as I understand it seems to make something impractical, I think its the GMs duty to make it clear that's...

I don't know how it tends to be these days, but at least at one time the important word in this sentence would have been "should".

Agreed. This is what I was getting at with a previous comment about not enough weight being given to player idiosyncrasies, but you've...

I suspect in the case of the people I'm talking about, there are whole elements in superhero settings they wouldn't be able to engage...

I think this is at least slightly overoptimistic. I've seen people tell gaming stories where it was clear that all it did was make them...

Which is probably why these conversations are so often laced with incredulity.

I've seen people get sticky about players defining, even fairly broadly, NPCs in the village their character grew up in. Its really...

You also need to watch out for people who are prone to not pushing back on things they may be dubious about, or worse, people who...

Some of the most extensive optimization I've ever seen was in superhero games, where the genre conventions run from low to no lethality...

It is, but sesh 0 is no foolproof plan either. It wont project you from a trojan horse because the person is acting in bad faith...

Yeah, I knew Skarsgard was a good actor, but I had no idea how well he'd end up engaging with the titular character. I also think...

I'd suspect its more or less a realism/intuition issue. With most weapons there's a blunt element that could be engaged (flat of the...