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The breaking rope is purely flavor. If they don't like the flavor, they can come up with one on their own. It won't change the fact that...

I don't think that's necessarily true. If you accept that's going to happen at least in uncommon events, you can make sure to build...

You can't avoid people using a tool for unintended purposes, or (as might be in practice) claiming they're using the tool when they...

I might simply be more sensitive to it, but I routinely have players asking if they can do something, and then expecting a DC to be...

Oh, they are not really interested in the definition. Claiming something has no useful definition is the new discussion these days.

An actual answer to that would be a massive detraction from the topic of the thread, so I won't go into depth. Suffice to say - you...

Eh, can't follow you there unless the gamespace is really narrow, there are always going to be weird corners that at least require...

Probably because those three got focused on late in the day; Starbolt was flying early on, but so where some of the others so I just...

Yeah, in the version I most tried to engage with (Spacemaster), it wasn't the tables but certain parts of character gen that ended up...

Though I have to point out that still ends up leaving you to find out if the GM will consider the same clarification next time a...

Yeah, from the construct I was assuming a case of someone understanding that something was (at least functionally) impossible and...

Sure, because that construct is never used in this context as a challenge and dismissal.

I said "quest based" for a reason. Those are not sandboxes. They're games where the campaign has a purpose, and things that need to be...

I usually buy what we need to play, which usually ends up being a print copy for me to read and then whatever VTT offering is needed (if...

Even that strikes me as steep for PDFs unless they're huge, but its a little less ridiculous than when I read it as in American.