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Let's say the characters are at a door and can't unlock it. As they're standing there a moment later, they are attacked by an ogre...

It certainly seems to me that's what you were saying in these two posts. The first excludes the possibility that 'fail and nothing...

Faolyn's guacamole recipe aside, it's highly credible that the runes could - on someone's successful roll in hopes of such - be...

Unless you want them to, I suppose... Trying to pick a lock has stakes, namely whether you can get beyond it or not. There may or may...

My not being able to pick a lock isn't a major fact about the world at large but it is a major fact to my character in the here-and-now...

I understand the sentiment but presumably the game has principles that would limit a player from declaring that as his hope in a...

Are you really quibbling about describing this as 'the PC's action' vs 'the player's action declaration' such that you would say 'the...

As long as you agree that the player decided what the outcome would be if/when success was rolled. You see, we fully understand that...

look at it this way, cancelling the date as a result of failing your test isn't a consequence of failing your test because you didn't...

Right...you mention the license test, then another cause, then several others buried in "so on"... You see how this is A --> B --> C...

No matter what you might claim, "what the player hoped for" and "what the player decided" is, in this case using these rules, exactly...

Oh, for--! Are you doing this thing again? We are all aware that the game takes place in an imaginary state.

You do realize this is, by name, your personal way to play 4e?

Again, that's different than what happened with the runes. A closer analogy might be if you and your friends got together for a raffle...

The analogy there is that the GM - who in theory controls the setting - gets to put the runes there but doesn't get to determine what...