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"Not what I like" =/= "Massive Flaws in the design" And they aren't making a superhero game. They are making a High Fantasy game. The sort of game where the main character might be the avatar of a god who does battle for the fate of the universe (Eddings). I've read a great fantasy series...

So are we just ignoring Arneson and how he ran Blackmoor? Which was pretty different from how Gygax ran his table and from everything I heard was far more concerned about story and character than punishing players for listening at doors too much.

If you can't get six pages out of a series regular on a TV show, you are either dealing with a minor side character in a short series, or you aren't trying. And, sure, I admit, I write a lot. I'm a writer. It is what I do. But in terms of thinking about the character? Not even thinking about...

They likely will have a monster called a Gynosphinx, but when they talked about Sphinxes in the video, the artwork showed things much closer to the Sphinx of Wonder (multi-colored cat with wings) than the man or woman headed cat with wings. So they may be facing a significant redesign...

And forty men who knew him, knew his legends, and had been at his house for ten years, and were told they needed to string it couldn't... also, in most versions I've read the trick is.... being strong enough to do it.

Right. They can. So when the NPC dies, it is because the DM consented by NOT overriding the dice, which they can do. They can choose to save the NPC, and they do not because they have consented to that NPC's death. What the dice say doesn't matter if they can override it, and this isn't a...

I would point out that the majority of people cannot do that with something they have invested dozens to hundreds of hours into. Like, if you spent two hours baking a cake, and someone walked by and slapped it off the table, the majority of people aren't going to be like "well, I wasn't really...

But being interesting has to include interesting things happening. Dying in a bandit ambush isn't interesting, it happens all the time to random people. Dying in a goblin raid isn't interesting, happens all the time. Dying to a spike trap in a wall isn't interesting, it happens to grave robbers...

You can find it jarring all you want. But you pretty much never see an "action hero" trying to become an action hero during multiple movies or books. And while I know you don't play 5e, you have to know that the game does not expect level 20 characters to be "a bad-ass soldier". They expect them...

Odds of surviving a blast of hellfire is probably also pretty small. Bet 99% of people wouldn't survive it. Which is why it makes a pretty compelling story about the piety and faith of the Cleric named Temperance that her goddess's will allowed her spirit to remain even as her flesh burnt...

So... which was it? Was this idea of constantly punishing players for doing what you wanted them to do too well an artifact of Gygax's table that wasn't the norm for play? Or was it is the standard of the time and therefore the popularity of the game speaks to how everyone made it work...

Yes, and so did Mark Antony. They were nobility and famous heroes capable of feats normal people were not capable of? Only Odysseus could string his bow, that was a huge plot point in his own story.

Sure, but in a game the players KNOW how much effort went into their survival, so they are even more likely to buy it.

So no DM can override the dice, ever?

How many impossible survivals have I claimed must happen? I've never put a number on it. So, would one be a problem? What about two? I've read a book series where the characters survived probably around 7 or 8 impossible things for people to survive. Still never broke my suspension of...

So, you as the DM, consent to their death, and therefore allow them to die. As is your preference? That makes me right. Not wrong.

Can you tell the difference between Rambo and Paul Blart mallcop at a glance? You kind of give away the whole game here, by saying "assuming those Elves are of the same class, age, abilities, etc.". Maybe you can't tell someone's piety from a glance, but if you were true and loyal to your God...

If I said someone had a metal rod driven through their skull, and survived, would you call it impossible? Most people would. Most people would say "that is impossible to survive, you would die" Except Phineas Gage didn't die. Neither did the Australian Teenager in 2012. Or Michael Richards in...

Except it is absolutely the case with NPCs. The player of the NPC (the DM) automatically creates a scenario where the NPC can never die unless their player (the DM) chooses to allow it. No NPC can ever possibly die without the DM's consent, right?

I'm not saying it is a gotcha. I'm saying you kept acting like our point that you had these hard lines you were not willing to discuss was completely fabricated, but you keep saying you have them. As I said before, you seem unwilling to be open to changing your mind, as evidenced by the fact...