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I disagree with chucking them all out. As it happens in D&D, GM decides if the persuasion has a probability of working on an NPC. If...

If the PCs have in-fiction reason to know or think there's a time crunch, then sure. Where it would get really interesting would be if...

The issue remains, the roll is the mistake. Who rolls it is irrelevant. Anytime we use mechanics to bludgeon players into acting in a...

Hide behind the pile of dead bards!

That's when his identical twin shows up to avenge his brothers death, isn't it? ;) You mean you don't just make more copies of your bard?

Most people I know lock their front door even though someone could still break in fairly easily. A locksmith can open your door in a...

First, success with complication is is similar to fail forward but you can still simply fail. In some cases that makes sense to me...

The question has been how to implement it without modifying the already generated setting or changing the rules of the game. It's also...

What was the consequence other than the time taken?

The 5e rules cover that under Trying Again. That the DM either just says it happens or you roll to see how long it takes. I think that...

I'm not sure I understand why there's a difference. I mean, I get that you feel that there's a difference, and that you're not alone in...

This is true. There some interesting ways to still give some agency to players. If a PC is affected by something that robs them of...

I'm not great with IT, I tend to use Discord, but the positives are One can get through material rather rapidly in a short space of...

I did like using the line of sight and darkness/fog rules with Roll20, especially in cases where the party got split up a bit and...

In my game we roll dice to resolve uncertainty. If I have enough detail on an NPC to know how they will react an intimidation or...