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It isn't necessarily about heroic things, but how their life lead them to be an adventurer in the first place. When I wrote the...

Yeah, this is why I wouldn't play any of the XCOMs--or almost any game where I don't have autosaves enabled--on Iron Man on a bet.

Even if the designer/s wanted to make the game more ... compatible, I guess, with that sort of character thinking, that's almost...

While its a risk, its not a given they'll be hostile to it. I generally have pretty substantial backstory for most characters, but if...

Like I said, there's fairness and there's fairness. Some versions of that are harder to achieve than others.

"Balancing encounters a touch" by adding additional foes is exactly "spawning in" enemies. If it's being done to "balance" the...

Yet you'll still get people who deny it exists at all in the wild, just because they've never seen it personally.

Well, one way I can think of is if the DM has miscaclulated the threat level of a monster, and only realizes as the encounter unfolds...

I mean, every character must share spotlight time. As GM, it behooves me to make the game entertaining for everyone. That doesn't always...

Depending on their definition of "fair", it was at least an unreasonable expectation, because using some of those definitions its...

He made his, I made mine. He opened the door to a gamist note when mentioning the players enjoyed getting crits.

The latter depends on what definition of "fairness" one is using in a given context.

Yeah, even if something is uncommon, its a mistake to assume it doesn't exist at all in the gaming populace as whole. I've seen people...

We actually do have at least one person on this forum--IIRC in this thread, but I fear I no longer remember specifically whom--who has...

There's no reason they couldn't; nothing stops someone from going "I'm sometimes going to fudge a little when something's gone off the...