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The “we” thing is causing confusion again. @AlViking repeatedly asked if the guard would have shown up in @pemerton ‘s game on a...

I never considered otherwise. I disagree with @Hussar's assertion that "failure will almost always be catastrophic." My objection was to...

It tends to be a chronic problem in the action-resolution part of the hobby.

You may or may not know the specifics. You know what’s desired… but the surrounding details aren’t specified until the roll occurs and...

The reason we cannot know what happens on success (beyond the player achieving whatever their intent was) is because the GM has not...

Do you not understand that asking @pemerton what would have happened on a success in his example is not a comparison of two games? It is...

I've been calling these "Oddlikes" I like Mausritter.

It's by design though right. Rolling for intent in the BW style destroys puzzle solving. Conflict resolution in say Sorcerer, can...

It's a pulp-y fantasy city, of the sort that is fairly common in REH stories. How does the logic of the setting not indicate that a...

Yeah, there’s a page-and-half about how to deal with NPCs. So to say it’s missing or an oversight is just factually wrong. People might...

Yes, I have done that just to drive home the idea of events being related and how we’d view them outside of a game. I’ve asked for...

I think what's relevant is that for the first time since Vampire - The Masquerade's cultural explosion there is another roleplaying game...

I'm not really following this ruby discussion. But to me it seems to be asking how would you resolve an arbitrary action declaration...

Here are two different d6 rolls that happen in AD&D: *The roll to open a stuck dungeon door. *The roll to determine whether or not a...

Yes, well it was a quick example that I thought folks could separate from gameplay and would then easily demonstrate the connections...