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Great prompt. Did you say what you think yours would be? Can't claim to fully understand alignment myself, but I think I'd be neutral good. Definitely good. Similar to what some others have said, I respect some authority and legality, but not as a matter of course. It depends on the authority...

I completely agree, Professor Murder.

Ha! Me too. 🙃

Great highlighting and shading!

YES! Sound familiar? The US Constitution is a pamphlet for a reason -- because it was never intended to be the definitive rulebook or source of record for everything. Was always meant to be interpreted by different people and ammended.* * Not passing good/bad judgment; just pointing out that...

I think the real travesty happened when D&D introduced the concept of different action types (3rd edition, I think?). Horrible idea, IMO. Back when it was just rounds, even ignoring segments, which I never used, gameplay was MUCH quicker and easier for everyone at the table to digest. Not...

You won me over with your last paragraph. There will always be disagreements in a game, but there has to be someone who makes the final determination. Or, people angrily take their toys and go home.

That assumes the designers were infallible and there are no contradictions or poorly-worded rules. They knew they weren't infallible...which is why they created the role of DM to interpret the rules and adjudicate decisions at each table.

This is why they created the role of DM -- so that players couldn't either intentionally or accidentally exploit the written rules. The answer is "it's up to the DM."

If we let the players treat the rules as a game, looking for little loopholes to exploit, then the game suffers. It's the DM's responsibility to prevent the rules from becoming a game within the game.

Agreed. Or suggesting that d20 checks in D&D, which have been around decades longer than any of the other games being talked about, somehow rely on the GM more than some other, more complex mechanic does. Games can't and don't simulate real life. A person still has to fill in the creative and...

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I think 5E skills are a fine implementation...but sometimes I don't play with skills at all. Or, I refrain from reminding players that they even have them and instead call for them to make an even simpler CR roll.

I don't think it's as unhinged as you're making it sound. It's a simple but astonishingly easy mechanic to use. Relies on a player's skills and attributes. Nothing to look up. Easy to use in imaginative ways and gives the player options.

ls it really hard to imagine? Player wants to cast Magic Missile but doesn't have a clear line of sight to the target. There's a marble statue blocking their view. Player asks, "Would I be able to bend MM around the statue?" Answer: "Perhaps. Odds are slim, but you can try. Roll an INT check...

Absolutely. I allow players to do this kind of thing often to modify spell effects.

Entirely possible.

Remember Zima? Super cool there for a while. Or Hypercolor t-shirts? Had one of those in the 9th grade.... I don't dispute it's successful and wildly popular right now.

Well, there's no accounting for taste. 😇 But seriously, Daggerheart wins hands down in the eye candy department. It's a gorgeous game with insanely high production value. I think that explains about 82.5% of its success thus far.

Books for games today are already well into the hundreds of pages. At what point does it become counterproductive? Speaking of narrative games and incorporating narrative elements into different games, few things are less helpful to story building than having to pause to find something or look...