Recent content by soviet

Also, it's so structured. You're telling me that I have to wait for the other guy to do all their stuff, and I just sit around watching for a bit, then I do all my stuff? Then wait again while everyone else does their stuff? Unrealistic.

So every decision made by a player in an RPG is somewhat meta by definition? IRL I don't know my to-hit bonus, damage dice, hit points, AC, movement rate, and skill modifiers, but I do know these things for my character when I play an RPG.

The emphasis is on 'play to find out' and who is doing the finding out - it should also include the GM. If you are a player in essentially any RPG then, yes, you play and you find out what happens. And if you didn't play, you wouldn't find out. But what is it you are finding out? How was it...

The OP is asking two different questions and they're really two different threads. Is it possible to truly play any game RAW? Is it desirable to play any game RAW? Or, to carry on the Jeff Goldblum theme, your GMs were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to...

How do you know what the RAI is if the RAW doesn't say?

"I hope none of these random guys I hope to find in 2027 were planning to play any damn tortles!"

Don't forget unknown knowns! Things you do that are written in the book but you don't remember they're written in the book

A lot of people think this is just a job that you go to. Take a lunch hour... job's over. Something like that. But it's a 24-hour deal. No two ways about it. And what most people don't see... is just how hard it is to do the right thing. People think if I make a judgment call... that's a...

Tastes of... failure

I think a key difference here is who your players are and what your relationship is to them. I play with people that I've known for multiple decades. If I'm GM and they come to me with an idea that's a bit off the wall, I trust them enough to try to give it proper consideration. And if one of...

Until it's time to, um, 'release a second edition'

How is rejecting someone's ideas without discussion and ejecting them for questioning it not treating that person as disposable?

Uhmerica

I agree with you. When this all came up not long ago I was one of the people arguing that the DM has an obligation to have that conversation in good faith. That's it. If the answer is still no, so be it, but at least see if there is a possible compromise. Certain people replied absolutely not...

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