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I think the 4e philosophy was that D&D was primarily a tactical combat game.

Which is fine, obviously in the rune example the player can't decide that the runes make them into a god although I do wonder how the GM...

Why would we do something that we don't want to do? What I mean is what I just said above. We don't want it to be the way you are...

I will perhaps get to some other comments tomorrow. But I've got time for just one or two. I want to look at the lottery comparison...

Would it have been a valid DM decision in light of the hope and positive result, for the DM to decide that the hope was not realized?

Except that it's not. No it doesn't. Control over everything else doesn't force specific timing. It just doesn't. Your math works...

Have you ever climbed a cliff? Looked up and said "That doesn't look too hard" only to find out that it's not as easy as it looks...

I've done similar things. If the outcome isn't in doubt and the PC will succeed without a roll, but time is an issue, rolling to...

That's a perfect example of rolling for degree of success, where success is already guaranteed.

Somebody has to decide, though, right? So if Jocasta (Jane) tries to read the runes hoping they'll show a way out of here, and fails...

There is one gray area in here in my games occasionally, it's just not what I would call fail forward because there is no chance of not...

That's truly amazing syntactical jujitsu. They didn't decide because they had to succeed is totally different from me saying they...

I agree it had to be reasonable in context, but the player is obviously aware of that so they made a reasonable request. But they still...

It's as player-driven as real life, and I do not want to play a game where you have more power than that which such a person in the...

After a success the GM decided to give the player exactly what they wanted. Therefore because of a good roll the player decided what...