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How do you go from "they are not guaranteed to succeed " to failing fairly often and it's toxic or that magic solves all or even a...

Since you've never played in my games you can't really pass judgment. I won't say people always succeed as well as they would like...

I stated that failure will often only mean a minor setback or missing out on a benefit. A single failure in a chain of checks only...

Is there a reason you've decided this needs to be nitpicked?

Yeah, of course it isn't cheating objectively. My OP on the subject said something like "I felt like I was cheating my players", not...

This is the illusion described: This illusion was clearly broken. To claim there is no illusion make no sense to me? I can play a very...

Seperate point from the previous, which was relevant for the situation you proposed where a planned test actually can have wide reaching...

This difference is huge! When you create the adventure you have to consider both options, and can make sure both are consistent with an...

Well, no. The key difference is that success has no cook and failure has a cook.

An exciting time much like the late 70's when Runequest and Chivalry and Sorcery and Tunnels and Trolls all made a splash ... and the...

I would certainly hope you knew that I was not in any way being serious. I think we all get too serious on this forum, I was attempting...

The bolded is where the mistake is made, if someone's doing it like that. Ideally, in a granular resolution system, the degree of...

My advice is.... the PCs shouldn't be in London before 1858 because the stink may be really unberable...

The US sales now fall under games or some other category that doesn't provide sales rank. But a DDB subscription has got to be...

It's not nothing, it's just that considering CR's popularity I'm not surprised. Meanwhile I'm sort of annoyed that we can't see the...