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Are we talking about "breaking the rules" as in not correctly reporting your current HP, or "Breaking the rules" as in "I think my spring boots should allow me to jump further than indicated by the rules", or "breaking the rules" as in "We got a magical crossbow and a bunch of peasants, let us...

And it was measured by professional career astronomers, not happy amateurs. I fail to see how "this is hard for the professionals" to not be a justification for "If you just want a fun hobby game, you probably shouldn't try this"? If indeed this is not an acceptable justification to you, then I...

.As I said I do not what you try to say with "presume". That was one of the possible interpretation I (As a non native english speaker) could see. As such I was using the rethorical question to indicate I didn't think that was what you could mean, as I found it absurd. I hence tried to exclude...

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This is actually the problem I have with your use of the word presume. If we had fully acted as if the defendant was beyond all doubt innocent, then why is there a trial at all? A court has a lot of procedures in place for trying to determine the guilt of the defendant. However during the...

I think there are some room in between the extreme you lay out in your first paragraph here, and the absolute equality you insist on in your second? Do that same moral maxim apply to a courtroom between the judge and the defendant? And is it possible there might be players that would prefer to...

I have not followed this bypass discussion. But this prompted me to point out that I have seen published adventure that allows for bypassing an entire ~100 room dungeon level. At the entrance there was a secret door leading to the same place you would need to go trough a huge puzzle with...

I want to second this. I once had a group that had a severe attendance problem. At some point I as GM i suggested limiting XP to characters not present (Maybe half share, I do not remember the details). I almost got a full blown player riot in my hands for merely suggesting such a thing...

I wasn't aware @Lanefan had only played with that group in his 30+ years? Has that been confirmed?

There is a findamental difference in "acting as if" (which is the way I read @Lanefan 's "assume") and actually believing something to be true. This distinction should come natural in a hobby where immersion in a fantasy world is a common practice. However I do actually not understand what you...

Yes, I am happy with that contribution, and think it is important to credit @Bedrockgames . He also expanded on it in D&D General - [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. in case you missed it. I think I have seen variations over the theme of prepping motivations several times, but...

I cannot understand why noone is mentioning any starter set? Have they become so bad at teaching the game? I started at DMing at about that age mightily helped by the 1991 D&D black box. That went trough gming step by step while playing with the players, one double sided sheet at a time. After...

I really like you sharing that you have found broader impressions work better than detail for you! Do you think you can try to give an example as to approximately how broad strokes you use now? Even better if you manage to compare it to what you might have done before?

Of course it is a colaboration! But as a DM I am still sitting alone, seeing in my notes that there is a member of the thief guild in the tavern, and need to decide if I should draw attention to that character or not. I cannot ask my fellow players to make that decission with me, as that would...

I am not sure what two procedures you have in mind? There has already been mentioned a lot of practices, pitfalls to avoid, guidelines etc previously. For instance "don't prep character reactions, prep character motivations" is non obvious and a realy strong technique to make the world reactive...

I am not sure what is magical about this being explained when recruiting for the game, or at the very least in session 0? I would consider it a fault on the GMs part if they failed to assure the player was happy with this kind of play before bringing them on board.. Well it could be...

Oh, you missed this? Yet another quick context summary: The conversation got into a track where we had identified 3 possible ways to handle the situation where you have a scene with a non-obvious prepared element that would likely be interesting to the players: 1: Just tell that it is there 2...

I feel like @Bedrockgames are getting a bit into the teritory of processes around this in his post here D&D General - [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. It proposes PoV with Q&A as the rule of thumb direction to resolve the trilemma. With that one resolved focus can then be...

Well, the property of there being a DM bias in all descriptions are present in many (probably most) modes of TTRPG play. But I don't think I would consider it a problem in most of them - not even in "soft sandbox" as mentioned in my previous post. It first become a problem if you really strive...

Seem like we are coming to similar conclusions :D But I think I should point out that I think a central observation is that there are at least two different ways of thinking about sandbox going on here. The first is the soft sandbox ideal where the DM is freely throwing in interesting stuff...