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No. That's why in some leagues the refs have to disclose which team(s) they support, and are then not assigned to work those teams' games or, ideally, games which could overly affect those teams. Only to a point.

And now, just a few minutes leter, it's not working.

It's working as normal for me at the moment. Firefox, old desktop.

Alternatively, one could largely eschew FF for those binary "yes or no" tasks (e.g. picking a lock), go with "nothing happens" instead, and leave it up to the players to make the next move. Interesting in that you see 4e-like skill challenges as a more fleshed-out resolution system where I see...

Pemerton wanted to know what 10 seconds of inventory management might look like. I chucked in an example. As DM, I'm fine with a player doing it that way and also fine if they want to get into more detail with it. After very low level, IME, they rarely if ever want to go into much detail...

Unless I'm missing something, I think I more or less agree with this in principle. That said, there's always going to be players who get resentful at what they perceive as mechanical imbalance between characters, and D&D has gone a long way toward catering to these players via things like...

To be fussy, they want the DM to be a fan of the characters. I agree it's not neutral, but then they seen to define "fan" differently than I (and maybe lots of others) would. And-or exciting.

Player: "I spend 75 g.p. reloading my basic gear and equipment to the original amounts and conditions on my character sheet - full quivers, full rations, replace a few bits showing wear and tear, that sort of thing." DM: "OK. Chalk off the 75. If you're looking for anything more pricey, check...

This example is all good, and could work in any game I think. I could easily see any of those (except maybe the last one) playing out in my game were I to run a situation like that. The bolded is the key element, though: the fundamental action still fails. It's when the rolled failure of the...

This thread's now at 801 pages. How many pages is War and Peace, and - far more important - can we beat it? :)

So, you're looking for the Desert Bus of RPGs? :)

Some are, to a point, but more ruled by their emotions than their passions. I avoid angsty introspection like the plague, however; I hate that crap in any form. This is orthagonal to the other things below; I've had emotional pragmatists and emotional gonzo types. The best character I've ever...

I agree that being true to character is the best option. If I'm playing an unwise character (which I do fairly often, just for kicks) I'll often have it do something in a very "sub-optimal" manner, and not always to its own or anyone else's benefit. But if I'm playing a wise character, the...

You're the one making an absolute out of it, not me. "Some answer which seems adequately reasonable and logical" still strongly suggests not standing straight into adversity when there's ways around it, and instead looking for those ways and putting them to use in order to achieve the same ends.

If the character I'm playing has half-decent or better Int and Wis scores (or equivalent) then in theory the character would - if given a choice - often try to find the most logical-pragmatic-safe route. A couple of my own long-serving characters are like this. One is a Fighter, engineer* by...

Occasionally, I do; to the point that were I a better novelist (as in, were I one at all) I could write books telling the stories around certain NPCs and how they got to be what-where they are by the time the campaign (potentially) interacts with them.

Quite intentionally so, as in theory character interests and player interests are largely aligned - unless the player is intentionally playing a gonzo character. Part of "advocating for your character" is, in my view anyway, doing what has to be done (and whatever the game lets you do) to keep...

Maybe a better turn of phrase right from the start would have been "make the characters' lives exciting" instead of "make the characters' lives not boring".

When one takes these two passages and combines them: As a player, part of your job is to advocate for your character. But being their advocate doesn’t mean it’s your job to keep them safe. It’s not. It’s your job to make their life not boring. It’s about figuring out who they are, what they...

What degree of tech and-or bandwidth does all this require? The fog-of-war on Roll20, for example, chokes on either my machine or my bandwidth (probably machine, but my bandwidth isn't great either). We use (free) Discord for audio and it has ranged from vaguely passable some nights to...