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Gygaxian Naturalism

Lots of potential customers not buying the product because it's a rip-off of someone else's work. Reputational damage for future projects.

Whether it's legally actionable or not, you might also consider how perceptions of plagiarism could influence how your work is received in the marketplace.

You have met them. You're meeting them right now! 'Hello fellow sailor, please can I have a lift to the next port? No, I understand, as you're doing me a favour I don't mind if we don't head off til tomorrow. Of course I'll help out on the way.'

I might be French or German. Which nationality am I?

I don't think this is true. This is a rule of law question. The law should treat everyone equally. To pull an example entirely out of thin air, if someone appears to have committed certain crimes, they should face trial and sentencing like everyone else, even if (hypothetically) they were a past...

'System doesn't matter but the games you like are vastly inferior for mechanical reasons'.

The things I like are necessary and understandable abstractions that make the game more fun. The things you like are ridiculous absurdities that make the game ultimately hollow and unenjoyable. 😉

I agree, it's a character choice that neatly expresses things about the PC's background and personality. 'Oh you can use everything' is just lazy design.

What were the chances that her sister would be in that bar? One in a million? Sounds very unrealistic to me. 😉

Can't you make exactly the same argument about e.g. IC discussions between the PCs? No chance of failure so you just skip over it?

Clearly we both have weak-ass permissive GMs!

I once got recognised in a foreign country by someone I'd never met, and who'd never met me, and we had no interaction on the day, but he knew my brother, saw the resemblance, then bumped into my parents (who also don't know him) when he was back home and said 'hey you look like soviet's...

I'm following two threads at the moment. This one is (lately) about how narrativism doesn't really exist and players of D&D 5e are just as empowered to drive the story. The other one is about how background traits in D&D 5e are terrible because they give players the ability to fiat content...

I appreciate the clarification!

Roleplaying is all about emoting while staying within the anticipated lines of the module and having the outcome of your actions and dice rolls subject to a veto by the GM.

Well, I don't think that 5e is unequivocal about anything. But aside from that, no, I think that the background traits themselves are a marker on the 'non-GM dominance' side of the ledger, albeit a fairly lonely one.

Yes, if it's rude to say that those who don't allow certain uses lack the imagination to think of a justification, it's also rude to say that those who do allow such uses have implausible/nonsensical gameworlds.

I'm not sure anyone thinks the abilities should always work. The issue is what that failure rate should be, and what the bar for reasonableness is. Personally I can almost always find a way to justify such abilities, or a way to play through the justification of such abilities. And I think the...

i enjoy IC conversations as well but ultimately in a trad game it's just colour. PCs aren't going to fight each other or break up the party because of what was said. Inter-PC relationships aren't going to meaningfully change, or have an impact on the direction of play. The conversation your...