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Which is why I sometimes use partial success. If you miss picking the lock by a small amount you can continue to attempt to open it...

You not accepting the difference does not mean much, sorry. A random encounter does not create monsters. It does not add mountain...

If I used random encounters, I would roll for the encounter and then set the scene for the encounter that's about to happen in. "You...

As we've said repeatedly: the reason the cook is there matters to some of us. Maybe it doesn't matter to you. Either way is fine* but...

A double necro post in a thread about raising the dead... so meta, I fell out of my chair.

Different strokes for different folks. In my games if the characters are breaking into a house I'll know who's there, whether there are...

It wasn't? You sure about that? And had the ground been thusly described then one would think there wouldn't have been an ambush...

Just don't try to pet the bison.

About 15 years ago I was at Yellowstone when the tour bus stopped at a bunch of cars to see what wildlife everyone was looking at. I...

Other than the fact that I would usually use group checks where half the party has to succeed to pass, none of the examples you gave...

I've come across mountain lion scat (bits of rabbit fur in obviously fresh poo) and I'm sure the cat knew we were there. Been in...

It doesn't have to be. Nor is anything retroactively added. If the DM has only narrated a few things, then one of those few things...

Several years ago my mother and a bunch of her girlfriends(about 10 in total) went on a women's retreat to a ranch in Central California...

True to an extent. But then when I give a concrete example of picking the lock and the quantum cook, I get "What the goal and...

of course they are completely able to judge when the right time for them to enter should be, however this still gives them absolutely...