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This is a fair question to ask. I would need to know more context about that Secret Door. i.e. did the party know or heavily suspect it...

I don't think this is right at all. As @Campbell in this thread has pointed out, it's easy to have "simulationist" or "exploratory" play...

Yeah, I loved reading it...but if it were a supers game and I was a player? Yeah, no.

In the initial example (which came from a website) there was no mention that the break-in took place at night. That detail was added later.

To my mind, “telling a story” is how I’d describe the orientation of a session of Fiasco, or playing through a metaplot-heavy module of...

No, then that would be crappy DMing, as we’ve all said. Once you establish something as true in the fiction, you’re supposed to build...

Perhaps it depends what is mean by "risk mitigation" and "maximising the chance of succeeding at longer-term goals". But what you say...

I sort of agree to that theory, and that is why I would be careful to introducing the simulation term into the discurse. The problem is...

Aedhros is spiteful (he has the Spite attribute, being a Dark Elf) and self-deluded. He has a Belief that I will never admit I am wrong...

In the abstract, avoiding having "nothing happen" is a good thing because it has the decided benefit of helping prevent play bogging...

Listen, I don’t have any kind of problem with a random encounter. But it’s not any different. And your rolling ahead of time doesn’t...

In terms of how big a problem it is, how many people run the sort of games that would make it so is absolutely relevant, and its not...

The setting being saved can be a neighborhood, a town, a county, a river valley, etc, of course.

Saving the world isn't the only things people do in games. Sometimes it isn't even a thing that's on the table.

I'll just note, as I always do, this has a lot more to do with the opposition you're going to face than your particular power level...