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From Gygax's PHB, p 18: "Thieves use cunning, nimbleness, and stealth." Just to be clear: are you saying that I'm wrong about the rules...

I'm just a bit fed up with you (and other posters) misdescribing it. I mean, you say it's not hard to understand that it is not...

I know. You have made this quite clear. In the game I was playing, the character had not control over the meaning of the runes either...

I didn't say it is. But it is part of playing a RPG. There is not the least difficulty in saying how MHRP works: *The PC is subject to...

To my observation the more specific a game text tries to get, the less able it is to cover a much wider range of situations. That's a...

I, too, used to enjoy suffering for my TTRPG art. :) Now I don't want to anymore.

Filling in the words in a Mad Lib is both "contributing to the fiction" and a railroad.

Exactly. Which is why I generally don't look for that sort of gameplay in the TTRPG space, and scratch that itch with boardgames and...

Interesting! I actually have somewhat opposite preference regarding characters (though weak). I tend to like "avatar" type characters...

Maybe not in your D&D games. I've been doing that for a long time. How else am I supposed to know if there's a cleric in the town? I...

I'm roughly in agreement with @Emerikol... it's down to dislike; which is a fact about a given player's relationship with the game...

I'm surprised to hear you'd rule out the possibility of a cleric in say Tilverton (while it was extant), if one were not expressly...

As I have posted, I understand your assertion. I disagree with it. The fact that the player's action establishes backstory elements that...

Really? The player doesn't (in 3E) pull out their Power Attack spreadsheet? Or (in any version of the game) check that the cleric has...