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Yea. There’s alot of nuance here and we are just scratching the surface. And it’s also different for each person. But we aren’t trying...

Unless you're playing a game where the rules tell you that a complication happens on a failure. In those games the world is not...

it's not more realistic if complications happen less when competent people are performing the task, the world doesn't care who is...

People exaggerate on the internet SHOCK! 4e was never particularly popular, but then 3e was already struggling to compete with video...

That's because you aren't thinking it through. Whether or not someone is in a room has zero to do with competence of a lock picker...

To be clear I'm only really talking about my approach to the game and how I view it. Other people may have a completely different take...

They are representing two different things. One is an action the character is taking, the other is the chance that something will occur...

Did I say it was not? It's simulating the attempt to open a lock. Nothing more, nothing less. It's obvious there's nothing I can...

It does not matter who made the roll, it's the purpose of the roll and what the roll represents. A sleight of hand to open a lock is...

I agree that there could be far more detail, there are a lot of compromises in order to make the game easy to play. It may not have the...

Bonus image ... there doesn't have to be tall grass in order for an ambush predator to get a sneak attack. Find the mountain lion about...

I wasn't doing any backfilling. I don't narrate terrain for every mile of travel. I rolled a specific monster and knew that there...

A living world sandbox compared to a traditional railroad is not very GM driven. There’s more to GM driven than ‘independent of the...

I guess noone would mind the player rolling the wandering monster with their hands. The problem come when the player for some reason is...