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In casual talk, with my table, bypassing refers to combat or dangerous exploration encounters (you could throw traps in here) while...

Gotcha, I guess I've been on the lucky side & also have been running games with players where complication and "failures" are desired...

Most groups are not friends who have been gaming together for 30+ years. That, alone, already puts Lanefan's group well outside the...

This has always been such a weird argument. "We can't have a setting where the bad guys are doing unequivocally bad guy things!"...

Given the relatively small amount of math required on top of the duality dice, is there a reason why you wouldn't just have people roll...

Ah yeah, that's a great point there. I've definitely had some moments where play felt like it was lagging out, and I realized I needed...

Although the games I tend to prefer - BW, TB2e, Prince Valiant, MHRP and variants - aren't the same as Stonetop, speaking with a level...

I found that 4e D&D actually played fairly close to this: if the game is played fairly seriously, then every hour of play is about...

Makes perfect sense to me. In my TB2e game, I introduced the pirates first as people that Lareth cared about, then as an encounter on...

Right, I've played in a lot of extensive settings previously. I've run APs that have moment by moment play mapped out, I've played in...

I've never shied away that the setting is the GMPC. I'm the one who selected which APs/modules as well as homebrew content exists. The...

I can't speak for what Strandberg does, and I guess it depends how you define "low vs high stakes." When my players want to explore...

I'm not going to argue DW design stuff in a DH + thread, but I concur that DH is so far doing the Critical Role play ethos better from a...

Jumping off this to answer your previous direct question as well, this seems to be a misunderstanding of the sort of actions a game like...

If that's the case, doesn't that mean all GM actions ever count as "hooks...only on a smaller scale?" Because if the thing described...