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For sure. The bulk of the issue is that a large subset of players don't like the idea that the GM is just "making things up"; they...

I mean, if your requirement is that NPCs are always pregenerated into a fictional space beforehand, than any mechanic that doesn't...

Kind of amazing how an example designed to make fail forward look ridiculous makes it look ridiculous. A much more artful version of the...

I mean, my settings theoretically have billions of NPCs that "exist" in the setting. But the only ones that matter are the ones that...

You can do that, but if you want to integrate it with D&D Beyond (which I'm not a huge fan of, but lots of people like), you're going to...

I can't speak as to what's in the D&D beyond, but in Valda's SoS, they had a sidebar explaining how to use the class with different ages...

To me, they both reduce to "success, no conflict; failure, conflict". The framing you put around them could possibly be of interest for...

Generically? Typically "soda". The image does not contain enough information to tell whether it is Coke or Pepsi, or even whether it is...

It's been very challenging for us in the off-brand diacetylmorphine business.

That is not my reading of the examples at all.

But you're not pretending there are no guards. You simply narrate that there are guards, but your skill as a thief renders their...

If they aren't encountered in the fiction, the difference there seems immaterial to me. Which I guess is a major point of distinction...

A skilled thief encountering less wanderers feels entirely verisimilitudinous to me.

My bolding. I agree to the principle, but the devil lies in the fact that we in trad play doesn't actually specify what is the failure...

What's ugly about the fact that different people play RPGs differently, for different reasons?