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Worth repeating. (And if some kind soul would XP Janx for me, I would appreciate it.)

I don't think it's that complicated, really. At crunch time, do you make decisions based on in-game elements like npc personality and the nature of the game-world, or do you make them on metagame factors like pacing or plot immunity for the player characters? Frex, if the baron de Bauchery's...

Humans, lizard men, and intelligent apes. Anything else is superfluous to me.

The distinction was fudging or not fudging; nothing was said about "legitimate" or "illegitimate." The comment said nothing about presuming to know what anyone else is thinking.

:confused: So not only did someone write it, but an editor saw it and allowed it to go through. Geebus crisco, that's some friggin' shoddy work right there. Do the people that write this stuff actually play roleplaying games?

Is this a published adventure? Did someone actually get paid to write this?

Worth repeating.

I feel the game is very much a competition, the players and their characters versus an indifferent game-world. The rules of the game provide a semblance of the physics-engine of that game-world, and the dice are the hand of Fate. As referee, I'm the adventurers' biggest fan, but to the extent...

This is my default approach to running encounters. Most intelligent foes value booty over blood, so live prisoners who can be ransomed or enslaved are preferable to a pile of corpses. Accepting a surrender and honoring the terms - "Give me your horse and your gold and I'll let you go free" - is...

No difference between a limited resource allocated by the player and the referee ignoring the result after the roll is made? I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree with that.

Before the die roll, to better reflect the context or circumstances of the action? No problem. After the die roll, specifically to (a)void the consequences of the die roll? No, thank you.

Ask the referee to roll anything that pertains to your character in the open. For an online game, you can uses something like the dice-roller here on EN World. Both of you can see the results in seconds, and you both have a permanent record of what was rolled when, by whom, and for what. If...

:confused: Damn, I've been scoring my captures all wrong.

I disagree.

Most in-character interaction doesn't require a die roll, but when it does, the die roll comes at the crux of the argument, the point at which a decision is called for. I think this poll would work better if it was multiple choice.

Chaotic neutral.

I tried that; I ended up itchy and sneezing. ;) Good times. :) Agreed. I urge players to keep their backgrounds simple so that I don't spend all my time shoveling the walk. Why rob banks? 'cause that's where the money is. There's my motivation. The argument that the poster to whom I responded...

And so am I. I'm not arguing for or against complexity, nor am I arguing for or against tactical proficiency. They exist in roleplaying games, and people who are better tacticians in games which reward tactical thinking or master whatever degree of complexity a game possesses will perform...

I start with a sketchy, general goal - "Out there is a fortune waiting to be had. You think I'll let it go? You're mad!" - and let my motivations develop from my character's experiences in actual play. That's as much background as I require. In my experience, a character background, which...

I said nothing about complexity for complexity's sake. I said that someone who better understands the rules of a game may get better results than someone who doesn't. And I didn't say that games which reward tactical thinking are preferable to those which don't. I said that a gamer who is a...