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I've survived the last three years, and I'm still going strong today. The only moment of real risk will be whatever gift shopping I need to do later this week.

I love them, but I bet for most peoples it boils down to "It's too Eberron specific" or "robots don't belong in d&d".

Yeah, I can see that argument, it makes sense. I think my only pushback would be that not all aspects of "game" play are equally exciting to all tables, or even just how we'll define games differently. One of my favorite games of all time has no fail state whatsoever, and I don't think that...

Well those are two disconnected concerns, that depend on the table. Some tables, running away would say something important about the character's character. Others, a smart and logical response because they can outrun their problems. Still others, something the party would never do because they...

Reputation is such a personal and individual thing that I don't know that hard mechanics are the best way to model it, but at my tables that certainly wouldn't be an impediment to including the fallout of positive or negative reputation as an interesting factor of fiction. Failing the request of...

Interesting! I have to say, being willing to abandon my reputation in the lands I'm familiar with is pretty far down the list of how I'd personally approach it.

In my eyes, running away from the failure is the exact sort of ripe premise to bear fruit later as characters are faced with another terrible situation and have to question whether they want to earnestly wear the label of coward more than once.

Hey, fair enough for you! I certainly don't have death off the table for my games. I'm just very much of a fan of using the whole spectrum of potential failure, even when death may be an "obvious" choice.

I'm not going to disagree that it is that, but humans find narrative in everything, especially things that have any sort of tension and arc, so, I don't see existence as game and potential for narrative experience as competing ideas.

I have expressed before, and will continue to express how much I disagree with this characterization. I have no issue with saying some, or even the majority of players you specifically have played with.

Is anyone advocating for a complete lack of fail states? The ability to incorporate extreme, dire failure into the narrative in a cohesive, contiguous way, like most narratives we engage with.

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That terrain!

Excellent, I appreciate you laying all this out.

Building satisfying encounters is a very different concern, though not mutually exclusive, than creating a "full" adventuring day. Sure, and I would balk at accepting that as anything near universal, given that I've never encountered it, as many others here have similarly said. I don't find...

1) That's only if your goal is to leave a standard strength party close to empty on resources on a particular given day, and that's not a omnipresent goal of the game. 2) If play culture expectations are being included in 5e's GM responsibilities, then it should be included on the other side...

This isn't pithy, this is a heavily unbalanced framing. One side you've drilled down to the essential core framework, and the other you're putting high-level assumptions on. 5e asks you to only parse a dense ruleset as much as you run into problems outside of the bog standard loop of ask the...

I'm not accusing you of that. In fact, I made that comment you quoted specifically more to show that what I love about it isn't universally agreed upon. I may disagree with them, but I'm not deriding anyone for not caring for it. But for the people who would defend the vast majorities of scenes...

I'm very happy with my games at the moment, but I am curious to run one where people come in with explicit backup characters already built and see what changes that would engender.

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