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Yes, some of your original sets did not include dragonborn. However, in the later example a GM has chosen a set, and the difference between jerk and non-jerk GM to you is which of them is willing to alter their initial set to include dragonborn. And ultimately the question is whether the GM is...

So people who allow dragonborn no matter what are cool whilst those who don't are jerks. Also people with who create settings with traditional elements are just mindlessly copying whilst those who do not do that have proper reason even though they might be just copying Greek myth or something...

Yes, absolutely this! Such curated palettes are great for setting the tone of the campaign, and it would be awesome if the official rules would advice how to do this and give such examples. I however find it wild that this is coming from you, given that every time anyone else has expresses...

This obviously is not true. Causality is completely different in these cases. If the character attacks an orc and the orc dies from it, the causality is the same in both the fiction and the mechanics. This is not true for the runes. And this is not a trivial matter, but one that will become...

But what the mechanics do, is cause the player's conjecture to be right. That is not what happens in the fiction, and that's why there is a disconnect between the player and character decision space. That is why it is completely different than killing orcs and whatnot.

It is mind-numbingly cumbersome and overtly detailed spreadsheet hell with zero considerations for drama or narrative appropriateness. You'd love it.

I think it was a mistake to allow finesse to fully substitute strength with dex. It should have been so that it only does so for to hit, but not for the damage.

Perhaps this might happen to some degree, but also I think most of this could and perhaps should be agreed upon beforehand and then everyone treats it in the same way. Like for example the spell levels either are or aren't diegetic in the setting.

I think Rolemaster is great warning example for those who wish to pursue simulation, myself included. All things in moderation and so forth.

But is that a diegetic sound? I don't think it is practical, possible or even desirable to have a RPG where the GM doesn't to some degree make decisions that affect the direction of the game. It is just about under what sort of principles the GM operates when making those decisions.

You think eleven-year-olds have not heard all these swear words and use them regularly?

I feel that the GM fixing rarely occurring edge cases and unusual interactions on the fly is fine, but if the normal base execution of the rules produces undesirable results (such as the fall rules) then the rule simply needs to be permanently changed.

To me it seems weird to think that a failure or success in something would be due to one specific thing that we need to pin point. It usually is not like that. It is combination of different things.

This is how you get Rolemaster. You don't want that. You need the Misstepmaster supplement, then you can roll on the Manoeuvre on Loose Ground Debris chart IV to determine the exact method of slippage. It will take a lot of time, it will be very specific, and quite possibly not make any sense...

Yeah, but there is really no such thing as luck, everything is caused by something. We just tend to call the product of all sorts of innumerable variables "luck."

Yeah, I greatly dislike items for this type for similar reasons and I never allow them.

I think it can be all about the skill and still involve luck, as one might reasonably call the variability of skill you identified as "luck."

I was using it as an example of how that poster's suggestion would work in practice, if applied to the case we all had been discussing for thousand pages.

Look the post I was responding to. "Why is it such a problem for a system to integrate narrative concepts? Those could just be representing how things work in a particular setting." I.e. baking the "narrative mechanics" into the "simulation" because that is how the fictional world actually...

Yes, of course, but I meant the people in the setting, the characters and NPCs, not the players.