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But if you run a game where it's OK to not find out what's behind the door or in the compartment (which I typically do), then you can...

Absent kryptonite, Superman has about +40 in any skill you can possibly think of; and he doesn't auto-fail on a 1. Which is part of...

Even if-when 'nothing happens' clearly makes the most in-fiction sense? Depends on the player. It still, however, puts the players...

Have you read, for example, 5e's skill system? Like many of it's predecessor's its focus is on specific task resolution. That does not...

I don't see it as necessarily being poor design, though. When I design a dungeon-type adventure, unless I'm intentionally designing...

So in other words just more "You're wrong but I won't try to explain or understand why you have a mistaken perspective. I'm just going...

There is a reason the phrase "Are you SURE you want to do that?" is a mantra in D&D. DM control is as much about saving players from...

In isolation, they make perfect sense. When it happens every time a roll is failed, however, it quickly starts looking contrived...

So your argument is that we're lying?

Is a character who is being seriously injured by a monster in combat having fun? Some might be, but I'd bet a lot would realistically be...

Rule of storytelling: Deus ex machina is frequently cheap and/or boring. If an NPC is going to bust them out, it should be a known...

Are they? You've looked at every sandbox ever made, including the homebrew ones, and determined this is the case all the time? It's...

For me it's about general approach. Nobody thinks D&D (or any other RPG that I know of) is a particularly good simulation of the real...

IMO. Fail forward usually invalidates some premises of traditional play. Things like: Success is completing the task not some...

It also depends on how important the characters' gear and equipment are to play. In a game where gear and equipment are carefully...