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I believe this line from a post of yours started this sidetrack If the DM deciding does not mean unpredictability, then the players still can make informed choices and affect the sandbox in an intentional and goal-oriented way, so I am not sure why it switched over to a living novel then. I...

you had the following reply to a post To me that sounds like what is referenced below

that is exactly what the original post was, my question was how to find out the disposition of the current guard though, not how to find one that you have a good chance of bribing

so tell them / show them. I am not disagreeing with that

without it they would have closed their doors years earlier, so I do not see it as a bad decision. Their problem was bad management, not the release of 2e no it isn’t, but without sales your other decisions do not really matter eh, TSR bankrupted TSR, it just happened during 2e. If they had...

I am disagreeing that the DM deciding this has to mean that we get a series of unpredictable, unforeseeable, chaotic results because the DM acts on their whim with no consistency, logic, or rationale. I am not playing with a crazy person, so I am not that concerned with putting them in a...

could work, but is not really the same thing, ie you did not learn about this particular guard unless he happens to be McBribe

probably because this can lead to a never-ending stream of ‘but what ifs’, see the discussion around the criminal background

at least theoretically, yes, how would you figure out how corruptible a guard is without trying to bribe them?

since you quoted me there, I consider a good GM to be better at dealing with situations than some static rules text, that is all I wrote. I rather have the DM do what makes sense in the situation than to always follow the rules to the letter no matter what, just so they cannot be accused of...

nvm

“Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation”

I would expect a level of consistency / predictability rather than the DM just doing whatever random thing he thinks of in the moment. I as a player also have an idea of what I consider a likely / reasonable / possible outcome, if what DM decides frequently is between highly improbable and next...

I am not saying they cannot, to me that ability in and of itself is not a problem however, abuse is the problem. If the game tries to prevent that possibility by basically making anything possible if the character just rolls well enough, then I consider that at least as much of a problem...

one stubborn character does not make it a railroad, not even slightly. If this is your threshold for it, we will never see eye to eye on this or what is required to prevent one

yeah, your ‘resists’ and their ‘will not’ are really the same thing. If the characters resort to most of your suggestions they probably will drink, before that they won’t

if on the other hand the rules say you can get anyone to do anything if you are just persuasive enough, that might prevent railroading, but it also can lead to some pretty nonsensical situations.

lol, that is possible, have no numbers on that though

I am fine with the metric, I just think it is way too early for a conclusion. Of course sales will pick up initially, you have essentially the same number of new people coming in and created people upgrading to the new edition, the latter is obviously a bump. Having no bump would have been a...

him and Dancey, from the analysis and decision to buy TSR to the release of 3e, I would be interested in that