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None of what you say here is wrong. Part of what I was trying to communicate, it seems poorly, is that in lacking that common framework...

It seems obvious to me that you can NEVER pick one or the other -- every action in RPGs is a combination of both. A player can...

I pretty much agreed with everything you wrote, so I won't quote the whole thing. Just want to make a couple of comments: I agree it...

I'm sorry the last sentence hit poorly. I want to be clear, I'm only trying to speak for myself. Put another way, I don't want a player...

The latter. To boil it down to as simple an example as possible: You've got some bandits in a cave/tomb/whatever, in between you and...

I'd say some players care about worldbuilding if they do it. Some really don't, except in the broadest sense possible. They're there...

I have found myself leaning more towards assuming and rewarding character skill over time, because I have found even when trying to be...

Why should we prevent a player who is not a good Tactician to play a characterr who is a good Tactician or to play a character more...

Another aspect of player skill vs character skill is what about new players? Expecting a 1st time player to know about D&D tropes on...

I have a lot of thought on this. In general, I am very much of the opinion that the character should carry much of the weight over the...

The idea that I as a player have to figure out the trap when my avatar in the world knows more about traps than I ever will has always...

That's the rub; a good player can make a Dragonborn warlock fit like a glove and and a bad player can make a human fighter stick out...

So, I'm not quite sure what you are getting at here. I'm trying not to interpret it negatively, but it doesn't read as super inclusive...

From a DMing point of view, I’ve never personally thought it important to consider demographics in that way. Whenever I’ve needed an NPC...

The number of named and detailed NPCs in the FR is a miniscule fraction of the whole population.