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No. Because goal and approach are both essential and inseparable parts of the action. There’s no automatically succeeding on the...

Yeah, that’s certainly a way to do it. I prefer keeping the number of possible outcomes to two, three, or four myself, just to keep the...

It is actually a pretty good scenario to apply Daggerheart's results matrix: Critical Success: "The rock not only hits the tree and gets...

Ok. I’m not sure what I said to make you not want to engage, but sorry for whatever it was. Have a good one.

See, I would rule that hitting the tree with a thrown rock is trivially easy and doesn’t require a roll. The roll is not to determine if...

Sure, if you’ve previously established that “cheering someone up” can restore their hit points. That’s not normally possible in D&D...

Nah, it was That 70s Show that infected my brain with the snark worms.

No doubt you watched too many episodes of Miami Vice with Don Johnson.

Yes, which is why it’s preferable, because something is actually happening in the fiction.

No. You can describe trying to do so, and the DM, determining the approach has no reasonable chance of achieving the goal, will narrate...

No, the player wants to distract the guard. Explicitly so in the example being discussed.

Right, which is why there’s a die roll. To resolve the uncertainty in whether or not you accomplish what you wanted to do.

Yeah, it’s like the jerkass genie trope, where the genie actively looks for ways to (mis)interpret your wish that will result in a...

My position is that it I'd the GM's job to listen to the players and adjudicate THAT, not to play a shell game against the players...

If the players ask a bunch of questions, I haven't done a great job at describing the scene as DM. Sure, communication being imperfect...