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Do you have any real world examples of GMs demanding complete and total obedience? Because ages ago, I asked you something similar and you had to make up an example? (And then got mad when I suggested compromise between the player and GM instead of the having GM offering a full and heart-felt...

Because they really, really like dragonborn? I mean, you're probably thinking they're picking the heritage for the bonuses, but some people just really like playing certain heritages for the aesthetics. I have two players in my group who, if they can, will always play some sort of cat-folk...

And a car is certainly a worse way to travel if you want to really learn about the place you're traveling through.

But it's not making stuff up out of thin air, which is what you claimed. And you know what? You can figure out why you missed or fell if you are actually willing to do the math. In 5e, a person's AC is their armor + Dex mod + magical or circumstance bonuses. So if a person is wearing chain mail...

You claimed, way back then, that D&D was bad/difficult for sandbox games because it took too long. Many of us said "So what? We don't mind if it takes a while to set up. We like that sort of prep. It's fun for us!" You refused to accept that. So I repeat: If someone wants to spend six months...

Uh, no. D&D doesn't go into technical explanations--like, they don't get into the nitty-gritty of hit locations or discuss the exact mechanisms of a trap--but they don't have random things happening for no reason. If something is going to cause the wheels to fall off in a D&D adventure, the...

I think that the monster roles were mis-named. Solos probably should have been called Elites. Minions are not always the minions of someone else--they're just really glass weapons (not always cannons). There's non-Leaders with leader abilities, and some Leaders who barely have them. There's some...

The actual point was that Hussar said he could play Fate as a sim game and people would be weirded out because Fate isn't a sim game. When in reality, most gamers probably don't even know what GNS theory is/was, let along what each system is rated using that idea.

Because you are still talking about preplanning things in a FitD game instead of trying the game as it is actually meant to be played.

Then, as I said, you are playing BitD wrong.

How the cook came to be is unimportant. What's important is that their appearance helps move the story along.

That's better. You've established a minor complication and given the players something to react to. You're not supposed to commit to something ahead of time.

And you still would have been factually incorrect because you weren't running the game the way it was meant to be run. And notice here that the results (and those of the second example) directly affect the only PC who made the roll, not the scene or the people around the PC. The PC wanted to...

I'm well aware of that. But whatever the bard's interests are, is it reasonable that the dragon shares them?

While this is true--I'm aroace, after all--the question obviously was about a very stereotypical bard.

I know, which is why I wonder why it's still being talked about now. As I'm pretty sure I said back then, this is all stuff you would also be thinking about in a trad game where you write the adventure ahead of time. Maybe not what would happen on a failed lockpick, but you'd probably think...

As I've said before, nobody is purely one type of gamer. We all switch between those three gamer types--and probably others not covered by GNS--as we need to.

How would you know if the cook had been established? If you had managed to look inside the kitchen ahead of time and established it was empty, then it's not particularly logical. But did you look inside?

Is it reasonable for a dragon to be at all interested in a humanoid bard?

Most people, I think, would either go "huh?" or "okay...?" because I don't think most people care all that much about whether the game is sim or narrative or gamist, as long as it lets them do whatever it is they consider to be cool stuff and the rules aren't stupid.