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<blockquote data-quote="loverdrive" data-source="post: 9006265" data-attributes="member: 7027139">I don't think time invested by the GM matters, really. From the outside, the difference between carefully planned assassination where the GM took sniper's capabilities into the account, rolled dice or whatever the same way she would do for the PCs, and a decision to screw that player in particular on a whim is non-existent.An ambush kill in a game like D&amp;D will always look cheap, and being completely unrepeatable and unverifiable, this means it will always be cheap.I mused about it upthread, it was something along the lines of &quot;if you have infinite dragons, there's no thrill in using this specific one to the best of your abilities&quot;.I do believe that a game like D&amp;D would work infinitely better if there was some kind of roster-building mechanic, where GM has to pay resources to do stuff, conforming narrative to the rules rather than vice-versa, both way more fun to run and, obviously, way more fun to play.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="loverdrive, post: 9006265, member: 7027139"] I don't think time invested by the GM matters, really. From the outside, the difference between carefully planned assassination where the GM took sniper's capabilities into the account, rolled dice or whatever the same way she would do for the PCs, and a decision to screw that player in particular on a whim is non-existent. An ambush kill in a game like D&D will always [I]look[/I] cheap, and being completely unrepeatable and unverifiable, this means it will always [I]be[/I] cheap. I mused about it upthread, it was something along the lines of "if you have infinite dragons, there's no thrill in using this specific one to the best of your abilities". I do believe that a game like D&D would work [I]infinitely[/I] better if there was some kind of roster-building mechanic, where GM has to pay resources to do stuff, conforming narrative to the rules rather than vice-versa, both way more fun to run and, obviously, way more fun to play. [/QUOTE]

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