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Which ones have you played?

English as it's meant to be spoken.

I don't think that all people sometimes act in bad faith.

I wish there were any current events that showed the problems with giving one person ultimate power but I'm struggling to think of any examples.

You're disagreeing with something I didn't say. GP = XP doesn't make the game about getting gold. It (without a corresponding weight of kills = XP) makes the game about solving the dungeon without necessarily fighting the dungeon. I agree that the rules (and the benefits from levelling up) are...

I agree that these things are vesitigial now, and have been vestigial for a long time (certainly back to 4e, and probably 3e to a large extent as well). I don't agree that 'kick down the doors and fight the monsters, lather rinse level up repeat' is what D&D has always been about. I don't...

Existing things redefined literally: Dust of Disappearance ('Oh, it's gone') Turn Undead ('Brains...') Cloudkill ('Take that, you dirty cumulonimbus!')

I understand all of this. I was trying to characterise what strict TR looks like in response to someone who broadly denied it existed.

Yes. It doesn't have to. The GM in my example has been my regular GM for a long time and isn't normally like that (hence why I remember it). But for sure task resolution/rolling for effect privileges the GM's vision/editorial control in a way that helps/enables some playstyles but hurts/blocks...

For me roleplaying is quite a personal thing that you do with friends. I've been to loads of cons for wargaming and MtG, some of which have had large areas dedicated to roleplaying, and never once been interested in playing anything. I even remember walking past Gary Gygax at UK Gencon one year...

I have read you at various points as saying that D&D does feature rolling for intent instead of rolling for effect. What I'm saying is that i) I don't think this is true. I don't think D&D seeks to resolve intent or goal at all. ii) If it were true, there are a whole set of direct...

Golden Age 2: Gold Harder

There's a ton of player-defined stakes games out there (including one I wrote) and they all tend to have a big discussion about this stuff, including guidelines for what may or may not be permissible stakes, how to navigate different expectations, etc. This solves the 'I persuade the king to...

Having players express the desired goal and then have that be the expected outcome of a successful roll. How is that not player determined stakes?

No. In a conflict resolution game this would be something you can do. Please explain to me the difference between conflict resolution and rolling for intent.

% liar

I'm going to stop engaging with you now.

You write an essay about it and watch the forum discussions it prompts, is my guess.

Have you looked at the internet lately?

Hit points (and equivalent) are in part a measure of mental health and exhaustion. You can take psychic damage from magical mockery. 'I skip a stone across the lake like we used to do when we were kids, to cheer my sister up [and thus heal her a bit]'. Conflict resolution, the subject of the...