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Talking is good! It might have gone somewhere if the player was quick enough on his feet to contemplate that while staring at the loss of his PC. It is a stratagem. As a player, I'd put it near last resort because the large evil critter in front of me already told me its demands, but it's...

Off the top of my head and by no means complete and certainly not in any priority order: a laser-like focus on combat pillar the ebb and flow of combat -- the narrative of the PCs getting pushed down, rallying and coming back for a win is pretty deeply baked in the additional restrictions wrt...

Mostly face to face, some on fidonet.

Yeah, but that is blaming the victim in this case. The paladin was mugged. He had a choice, fight the mugger and almost certainly die or give in to the mugger and get blamed for being mugged. Now, could the paladin have decided to die? Yep. Is there any information in the player's hands that...

Ah, but you see that spell was not heretofore unknown. It's known and unknowable to the PC. Finding a copy of Nagol's Pleasing Persona which in almost all ways acts like Charm Person, means you now have a heretofore unknown spell to check!

That's not a bad way to handle it. It gives the PCs yet another type of goal which is always good.

And that's one of the reasons Wizards start to get out of control in later eds. Rather than effectively being a class with a very limited semi-random selection of powerful spell lists, they became a class where spell lists can be optimised and curated even if it takes a while. 2e started it...

"Best seafood pizza" That's... a pretty low bar. Like buried in the stone beneath the lowest mine on the planet bar.

Or their Int changes! You can't steal my dream!

Nice catch! I shall have to find out why I'm not getting it! edit D'oh! It's in the house rules. "M-Us do not get spells as they level,. You need to find or create them normally." We read "Acquisition of Heretofore Unknown Spells" means "spells that are added to the game that aren't on the...

Except when they don't. The classic "chained to a rock when the dragon breathes on you but you save anyway by huddling in a slight curve you wouldn't have noticed otherwise" is straight from the 1e DMG.. The prep combine with the words and smelly stuff are directly associated with the fire...

A good friend of mine mused that 4e would probably have been able to find a decent niche as a fantasy action adventure RPG except that it had the D&D label. He thought the game played fine, just different.

The authors try to associate limited use per day for magic, or at least wave their hands in that direction. It works, kinda, if you don't squint or stare too long or think about it too hard simply because humans have no direct experience how being able to prepare a few words and gestures with a...

I like Bild91's answer in general, but your case has another layer of indirection: How will you differentiate you using a stereotype and the fictional group adopting that stereotype either purposefully or unwittingly inside the fiction? Your writing about a fictional group that is adopting...

I don't think magic gets a pass from being disassociated. As a DM I like disassociated mechanics for the players: it gives them a way to have authorship in the game outside their direct characters. As a player I despise disassociated mechanics that I can use or that can affect my character...

1) what you you mean write only European? You can't write about anything outside your home town! Everywhere has differences.! :-> You can't culturally appropriate a fictional culture. There's no one to take it from.; no one can say you are doing it wrong and that your insensitivity can bring...

I have a different definition: a disassociated mechanic is where a person at the table takes an action that affects the in-game world without a corresponding in-game action occurring or where such an in-game action is a post-hoc justification for the event. Swinging your sword and hitting a lot...

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Ummm, how can the player know that? Is it common in the campaign? Do many overpowering monsters do that sort of thing? Why would a hungry dragon take that offer rather than, you know, eating a crunchy appetizer and then taking the doggy bag home? Did Smaug know exactly where Frodo was and...

That context makes much more sense, yes! 4e with a different presentation would play like 4e does.