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One person having a successful table with a degenerate method does not make the method less degenerate. Especially as you follow it up by pointing out it was likely the exception, not the baseline.

If someone is talking about how the game can work in general, and another person says "No, it cannot work like that, because I do it differently" then it doesn't matter if they are only talking about their table, because they are using their table to counter a general point.

Why? In-Universe you can't tell the difference between a PC and an NPC.

Oh, there are things you refuse to discuss? Like I keep saying? Like you keep claiming are false accusations, groundless and baseless? Okay then. So, someone can hold the title of DM and NOT be the final authority on all things Dungeons and Dragons. We agree then. I'm not arguing what you...

Dying of old age is still dying. Plenty of soldiers on battlegrounds where millions of soldiers died met there fate from old age and illness decades later.

True, but if our reason for including death is "sometimes people die", well... the bad guys dying also count. And if the POV characters happen to live, because sometimes people live when you would expect them to die, then that is equally realistic. So I don't find "sometimes people die" to be...

And sometimes people don't die.

These two things are very different... ...From these two things. To the point that I don't consider them the same conversation AT ALL. And I've tried to explain to you, multiple times, that I don't see the rules discussions as the same type of conversation. Those are a completely different...

Not liking the answer isn't the same as me not answering the question.

Have I ever, over a decade plus of talking to people about the game, ever convinced anyone of anything? Yes.

See, this comes across to me as a pretty degenerate methodology. You want to encourage people to listen at doors, that is a major part of play to prevent players from being ambushed by monsters behind doors. And the solution to ear seekers was... getting a listening horn, to listen at the doors...

Yes, reasonable people can disagree. Reasonable people also don't have to resort to "I'm the boss, so I win" when they disagree. The entire point I and people like Ezekiel try to hammer home is that 1) People should have conversations, not ultimatums 2) It is possible to find agreement and...

Except even they say it is rare?

I've been in games where I was the DM, and I did not set schedule. And while yeah, if the DM can't make it, the DM doesn't run the game, that doesn't mean that the DM has to be the one to decide where and when we meet. Just that you need to make sure the DM can make it. Just like you attempt...

We discuss the rules like adults. Again, seriously, this insistence that it is utterly impossible for the game to work unless someone is the unquestioned authority is getting old. You aren't proving the point you think you are proving. Yes, maybe it is possible that after a discussion of the...

Rules of a spell scroll say it is cast using the normal casting time. Per my understanding if a spell takes 1 minute to cast, what is happening mechanically is the caster is taking the magic action every turn for one minute to cast it. Therefore, the Thief can substitute the action for a bonus...

In literally any possible circumstance that could ever be considered? Of course. But I would never make a call without having a discussion, seeing what the goals of the player are, considering those goals and desires, and looking to see how I might help them reach them.

What? I'm describing how Ezekiel was completely correct in predicting how this conversation would go, when everyone told them that they were wrong and no one would take the conversation in this direction. What part of that makes sense with your statement of this not being vanishingly rare?

By your constant insistence that the answer is no, that there is no discussion, that you have your reasons and that you have considered them and there is no point in having a discussion because you will not change your mind. What part of that makes it sound like you are willing to hear someone...

Because you are utterly unwilling to consider any other possible approach MIGHT be worth considering. Just "this is how it has always been, and it is right and correct and attempting ANY discussions on whether or not it is the absolute best method in all circumstances is a waste of everyone's...