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Oh, I'll gladly admit to being a chaos gremlin. :) Not with every character, but certainly with some. And I'm far from the gremlin-iest in our crew. Never mind that sometimes two well-intentioned players just end up with otherwise perfectly decent characters who, when put together, instantly...

Which is also fine, as different people are going to have different "tells" if-when they are lying and each listener is likely going to be differently attuned to those tells. For example, the bartender keeps glancing over his shoulder while talking to you. One person might correctly interpret...

Quick google check finds no town, state, or country by that name. Should I expand my search to check planet names? :)

To me they're exactly the same thing, and if playing the character true leads me to doing something nasty in the fiction or to leaving the party or whatever then so be it: it's what the character would do. Let 'em fight, says I.

Once a character's been played for even just a few sessions, it usually becomes fairly obvious what to expect from it to the point where you can almost predict what that character is going to do in amost typical situations. And yes, this includes those characters whose usual modus operandum is...

Ideally my roleplaying of the bartender doing those things while he talks to the PCs should be enough to get that across, shouldn't it?

I don's eee it as dreck, but if I'm running all experienced players then sure, they can know this stuff. If I'm running a brand new player, however, as far as possible I want that player to experience and enjoy the same learning process we all went through at one point or another. My bad...

I added in two key missing words (bolded) to your quote as IMO they make all the difference: the players are trying to get to a new situation via their action declarations but there's nothing anywhere saying that attempt has to succeed. And when it fails, they're still in the old situation...

It's more like saying that if you miss in combat, in order to slay your foe you're going to have to attack at least once more.

That's where the player's imagination has to step up, taking what the DM describes and fleshing it out into a more complete scene. Most of the time, any conflicts between the DM's imagination and the player's are going to be utterly trivial, e.g. the DM might imagine the bartender as being...

If the pun-loving player plays a pun-loving character then he's playing it true when he spins those puns. If he plays a different personality of character and keeps with the puns anyway then he's breaking IC-authenticity. Disruptive, sure. Harmful to setting authenticity, very much so...

In my view, seeing "that's what my character would do" as a hallmark of bad play is an outright mistake. Playing the character true and having it do what it would do is to me the hallmark of very good play. Not sure what "stance" that puts me in, but not too bothered about it in any case.

Some images I've seen that used "half-elf" in the prompt gave decent-looking Elves without the radio-antenna ears.

In the right situation I could see a use for this. I'm awful at taking notes on the fly. How does it handle - or can it handle - a player running more than one character at a time? Also, is it smart enough to be able to distinguish actual play from table chatter? If it isn't, a lot of my...

I'd be far more interested if this was for desktop use rather than phone. Any chance of seeing that at some point?

I may have mentioned this before, but getting a new character into the game is the one situation when I don't mind some GM-side contrivance (or GM-side metagaming, if you like) in order to make it happen. Even then, though, there's limits: e.g. if the party are off-world where there's already...

Which is why you ask questions to get the GM to clarify the situatiuon, as and when needed. Where I'd rather game design - and, more importantly, GM advice - do what it can to fight against this. You're there to roleplay and-or inhabit a character, right? So isn't it in the better interests...

Interesting, in that I see not giving that information as the by-far best means of keeping it out of the way. Once the players have that meta knowledge, it's in the way no matter what. Numbers concern is more the realm of small-g gamists rather than trad-gamers (these are not necessarily the...

So in my situation with the riddle-door, it would have been fine if the door attacked us every time we didn't answer correctly but not if the door just sits there? Had the riddle-door attacked us every time we blew an answer we'd have all been stone dead long before we got it right. :) Either...

Fair enough. By late-era 3.xe I'd dropped away from it; I was more used to 3e having played quite a bit of it, and played just a bit of 3.5e before dropping out to free up the time to run my own game. Thus, when I first saw 4e it was a pretty big jump from the 3e I was used to.