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I agree, my interpretation of 'he does not drink alcohol' was more along the lines of, you cannot sweet-talk him into drinking alcohol, not you can threaten to kill his family and he still won't

but a more probable obstacle would limit the actions in a very similar way, see the cave-in vs gelatinous cube migration. I understand that you see a difference there while I do not, guess we have to leave it at that. I agree that neither should become a frequent occurrence as otherwise things...

just because one person does it that way does not mean everyone has to. You did not do any of this and called your game a sandbox, that you did not use D&D is immaterial to this

no I haven’t, will take a look, but I doubt it can do what I described, namely provide one explicit answer as to what the outcome is for any given action in any given situation where all the GM has to do is look it up. Was your ‘how many enemy wizards are after the party’ a BW scenario? If so...

I meant self-restraint as opposed to some game rules / mechanics that attempt to accomplish that restraint I am not sure we communicate restraint outside of what scenario we present in game, let's take your example I did not find the post you were referring to, I searched in this thread for...

no idea on either of these two. It seems to intentionally not contain (sub)classes when the TTRPG does. Why that is, is unclear, I cannot think of a good reason other than there being issues with them in DDB however, and in that case they also won't come later.

how many splat books, settings, adventures, etc. you release is completely unrelated to which version number an edition is You would get less pushback if your claim were that TSR released too many settings rather than that 2e was a failure

I showed that it increased sales, and it seemed pretty clear to me from the 1e trajectory that its days were very numbered. I have not seen you offer anything but your opinion (and TSR going bankrupt while 2e was the current edition) that it was a failure, you might want to work on that

that sounds like it should be errata’d

yes, setting information without crunch does not really benefit from DDB. Is this a rehash of information found in the other books or new content?

I agree with this, but the OP wanted to use rules to deal with it, that is why I was asking them how their rules establish them trusting the DM when they otherwise would not

if the rules say that it is the DM, then it still is the DM who has to decide the ‘details’ of the outcome, even if it is within the boundaries. So saying at that point any failure is on the rules, not the DM, still does not feel accurate to me. It shifts some responsibility on the rules, but...

I think it has a lot more to do with marketing and a game being ‘good enough’ than with skepticism

I get the notion, but there is more to DMing than following the rules. No set of rules will prescribe every outcome to every action under every condition, so a lot is still on the DM to do on top of following the rules and narrating events. Ideally the rules help with that, obviously, but there...

I am not seeing any game rules referenced here, so the same way you would do it if there were no rule, by questioning the decision? So what does the rule actually get you, a slightly better idea of when to question a decision?

and how do you enforce that the DM is following those rules?

I have no problem with the question, I agree that it needs to be maintained. I might disagree with the earned part in the sense that there are limits to how much can be earned before the first session. I see trust more as given until I have reason to revoke it than something that the DM has to...

so the dead end being a cave-in that is not marked on your map is fine, it does not need to be a wall that also appears on your map? How does the DM placing a cave-in not make it a railroad but the DM having a gelatinous cube migration make it one? Is this decided by the probability of the...

if that was the goal, I don’t think they succeeded the two appear unrelated, I can have precise climbing rules and still have the possibility of failure.

that is your right that is not my goal, I try to understand your point, what it is that makes this a railroad for you no problem the original post only said he would not drink alcohol, then someone starting listing ever increasing stakes like threatening to beat them up, threatening to kill...