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That's because you don't fundamentally believe in Intimidation (or I'd assume most other social skills) as a real thing. Without that...

Then they'd presumably have made the resistance roll.

Wasn't arguing with anything you said. Just pointing out that it's worth matching playstyle to system.

I have mixed feelings at best about overly "opinionated" games, but I have seen some that seemed to do a credibly job of what they were...

It can be unattractive to them even as a GM if they think it will make it hard for them to find new players when they resist said "scary...

Presumably they'd indicated existed as a houserule well before it comes up. If not, well, springing houserules on the fly is never a...

Yes? My points have been entirely about not buying the permises your preferences are based on. Which shouldn't be a surprise, or I...

Presumably him and others who don't want to play Torchbearer. Its still not an obviously excessive assumption, given the market.

Well, I think "a lot" is broad enough it can be viewed as accurate, or presumably more people would be playing Torchbearer. They didn't...

Google has a new image engine out (Nano Banana 2), and it looks like it's back to a bias towards photo-realism that some older models...

You'd think so, but often I've seen it go a different way. We don't choose our table mates exclusively for playstyle compatibility...

The use of the dice isn’t about any lack of trust in the players, it’s about the fact that your GM hamming it up at the table misses out...

While I think disregarding the tendencies in that direction is overly blithe, I'd argue its more that this also factors in elements that...

Well, at least in part that's because even the social bandwidth that goes between the two characters is not full; there are a lot of...

There are certainly games that don't wall off the effect of social skill rolls as only applying to NPCs. Some of them have more...