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There is a difference between some existing obstacle that you were not able to overcome stopping you from achieving your immediate goal...

Why? Why did the pick lock roll need to make it so that they could not be saved in time? If 6 seconds is going to be the difference...

No. After the lock opens, a simple, "I open the door and look inside" is fine. No need to make it separate declarations if you include...

In D&D and related games the mental mechanic that people have issue with is telling people what they think unless there's external...

Well, this is more of an ideal preference. Obviously there will always be situations where the rules don't directly model in-game...

I don't speak for others, but my position is that ultimate cause and effect are irrelevant to the mechanical task being accomplished...

So the game is supposed to give descriptions of everything that happens? Everything tree, leaf, bug? Do they need to be able to...

If I were to run a burning house scenario there would be a set number of rounds the character had to achieve a rescue. The number would...

If they would have died anyway had I done nothing, my failing to get into the building didn't change anything.

Connected yes. Connected close enough to be tied to the pick lock roll? Not in my opinion. Suppose they get the door open the first...

I'm having a hard time imagining how this situation could ever arise. The GM is responsible for the truth and veracity of the setting...

I'm happy to begin and end with the fiction, but if as a player the game lets me try to establish some of that fiction (that's not yet...

From a personal, in my game where it matters perspective, I'm afraid it is.

I've never been in a situation where I actively wanted the truth of the fiction to be less true, in the sense that I didn't find it fun.

You folks seem to really like to make denigrating comments about trad play philosophies in the course of "proving your point". Dont see...