Just look at this. The game as it is played by millions of people simply does not have space for this type of thing to occur. Meanwhile, when you play the game as a Total Nonstop Braunstein, you have space for EVERY SINGLE type of game.
Imagine you are in a typical 5E campaign.
Can you imagine your PC getting caught and then publicly executed by an NPC? First, almost no DMs would entertain doing this at the risk of alienating fragile players.
But what would it do for your campaign and “the story?”
Imagine a campaign update, a la a SEEN post, which describes how after a Constitution saving throw, the executed party is able to say “Turn me over, I’m done on this side” as he roasts alive.
That event, accessible to all participants even if they were not present for any pertinent session, becomes a rallying point against this NPC.
THAT is collaborative storytelling where players are making decisions based on real agency.
“Erm, actually, what you described is actually a campaign fail state.”
“Campaign fail state” is when the campaign fails to exist.
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