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Right. I have tried to address this in my posts to @FrogReaver. "Fail forward", to work, depends upon other "infrastructure" of play...

If there is no standard of fidelity by which the portrayal is to be judged, then it makes no sense to say the portrayal is faithful...

You can do that; you just can't call it faithful. Being faithful to your headcanon doesn't count. If you've made external declarations...

Not wild at all. You can obviously roleplay however you want. But you can't call it a faithful portrayal without being able to...

I meant a one-way relationship. There are obviously different methods to making the characters' lives not boring. One way just to have...

Not having an agenda of make the player characters' lives not boring is not the same as having an agenda of making the player...

No. You can’t faithfully portray a character without some sort of metric to measure that portrayal against. “I’m faithfully portraying...

I don’t want to get into a game of dueling anecdotes, but that hasn’t been my experience. Even the people using the new rules I’ve...

The boundary between "I'm an expert" and "I know more than you" in presentation is blurry and often dependent on the relative confidence...

It's easier than you think!

The generally frigid reception to 2024's overall banality allows me to keep hoping.

Agree to disagree. :)

Yeah. IME, most rules issues are not because people are cheating, but because they don't understand the rules (or because a rule isn't...

I'm not disagreeing, here, but I've come to the conclusion that often when people say something on the lines of "the players have...

It might be because my tables are made up primarily of other DMs, but if we see someone make a rules mistake, we call it right out. The...