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As an aside for what it's worth I personally do not have an issue with setting group standards for roleplaying choices, and I actually...

Well there's the evidence where it says pretty explicitly that the player gets to choose actions for their character. A constraint on...

I suspect its only going to be viewed as relevant in most cases in extreme cases, some of which may not even be able to occur in many...

It does have virtues and flaws, however, which can still force players to play their characters in ways they wouldn't, which was my...

I must point out this thread is not only about D&D.

The problem is always going to be that in the D&D sphere at least, combat usually takes up too much of the play-space to leave too large...

My guess is it would be the first printing, but if I even still have mine, gods know where it is.

If I recall, it wasn't so much individual pages separating as the bundle of pages partially or totally separating from the cover.

How is that functionally different from the way Psychological Limits or things like Berserk could force behavior, though? Both of them...

There's almost always more splitting you can do with attributes if you're of a mood; my college roomate and I once sat down and split...

I don't think that's actually true; its entirely possible for the GM to give hints to a player playing a particularly smart character to...

Besides the degenerate case I've mentioned, sometimes game systems present attributes but don't actually have a lot of mechanics...

Its a legitimate position, just not one I can entirely share. To be honest, its one that surprises me a bit from a one-time Hero System...

As discussed earlier, it can happen because of a misalignment of how much reward-to-risk the GM and players have. They keep looking for...

Yeah, but "One True Way" doesn't limit it to just you.