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No the problem comes in because most people think general distribution of rolls should be an individual thing but that's not how random works. A player could roll badly for every roll in a campaign and still be a normal part of the randomness of using dice. The statisticl model includes the...

my first 1st level character died to a natural 20 crit in the second round of combat. I've also had a higher level character literally stand in the tunnel of the encounter while being mobbed by creatures and miss for 6 full rounds even though he had the best THACO in the group. The dice can...

With things like Watchmen superhero Genre isnt really any diferent. Depends on the table.

To be fair. Most games are built around combat and in a world where antihero's are as revered as hero's, you can probably substitute the two interchangeably and the conversations validity holds

Probably. But it's only a problem when not everyone at the table is wanting the same kind of game

Good idea because just the players can mess this up. A few minmaxers can make that roleplayer feel useless every time the dice come out.

Stomping enemies every time is boring, nearly losing everytime is boring. But both are fun when you have no Idea whats around the corner. Sometimes things should just go right an easy for the PC's. Not all the time.

If you read my other posts. 😄. I said variability is important. Even in say a call of Cthulhu game. Not every goup of cultists should be a death threat. But appropriate level threats should come within that variability. I find even the players that want to be the A-team are usually ok...

I think the scene in. GOT where after many seasons of buildup the big bad UBER dragon just gets turned into enemy ice dragon with amost no cost. Far too many DM's treat everythiing their PC's do like that.

For instance I've played in games where all the bad guys where always PC level or above. They never fail morale checks are always so terrifìed of the BBEG that they never give information. The city guard can kill you easily, the thieves guild can kill you easily and 10 levels later nothing...

the person who can do what others can't. The person who defies fate, the people in charge and comes out ahead, not in some zero sum situation where everything is always against you. note this can be achieved at any level in any RPG if the DM is willing to allow it. And definitely not...

Call it what you want. I call it normal human behavior

We'll probably get That right after the internet agrees on what alignments are.

but still the same thing if the danger is the same every game every encounter. without variable danger. Everything is samey and boring

Nope i'll envision it like flypaper for adventurers

Its where Cthulu and all the creatures from before the universe plot to destroy all and take back thier glorious chaos

in many games weak means ineffective and barely functional struggling like worms in the darkness. Characters need to feel useful and effective in proper context with the game story. id say 99 percent of players would disagree with you on being weak. They play to be the hero

If the confederacy had initially marched in and destoyed the norths factories could have gone different. if russia had not been able to threaten france and england with war then you would have had no union blockade and france and england could have funded the south and locked in control of...

They didnt beat the govt. the govt collapsed, thier religions gods came back and no one had the resources to stop them from seperating from he govt. same with elves. shadow run could effectively be happening at the same time as mad max. The whole world order fell apart and some areas where...

But when every encounter is a nail biting one step from death then death and scary become normal and therefore boring as well. If every encounter is all or nothing then that's just a normal boring day.