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Its not common, but you do see some of that in a few games, but usually only for other skill areas that are heavy focal points of games...

That's tautological though; its not part of D&D because they decided not to do it. There's no internal logic for doing climbing and...

While I don't entirely disagree, this is an area people tend to feel fairly strongly about, so in some cases it may not be so much...

That might be what you think, and for what it's worth I agree with you, but that doesn't change anything about how 'people' react to...

That may be, but when assessing how they'll react to something, your view of it (as in, the view other than the players) is pretty much...

I can pretty much promise you that with many, if not most, players they're not going to see the difference as significant in this kind...

I think almost stealing the tuning forks probably caused more afront than if you had simply stopped planar travel magic working because...

I think there's nots of room beyond strictly 'rules as physics'. Lots of games, using all kinds of rules systems, have internal logic...

You also have the issue of what I sometimes think of as "negative GM engagement"; this is more likely to come up with an individual PC...

Yeah I can think of a few things which would be close to unarguably "GM force" but it's not much less fraught as a term as you say, and...

If railroading as a term is kind of fraught, isn't "GM force" just as challenging? I don't know what boundary I would draw around "GM...

Oh, they still have that. I was looking at the definition of "succotash" I found on line and looking for a primarily corn and bean mix.

I've expressed my feeling about backgrounds as a substitute for skills, so I shan't belabor it. But even backgrounds are adding...

I disagree. Fighters get to choose what they're good at just like everybody else. If some versions of the game give them fewer choices...

Its not a question of introducing "granularity" though; it was a question of introducing a resolution system for them at all. The...