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Surprise depends on passive perception beating the DC of the roll of the stealth. So passive perception is the king here. Let me ask...

Simulations frequently gloss over details and the rules cannot fill in all the details for everything. You don't get to decide which...

The player hoping it was something dictated that it was the thing they hoped for because they succeeded. They shaped the world to what...

Assuming the ship can be turned in time to miss the iceberg. That's what did in the Titanic: the ship's design was such that it took so...

you don't see how 'on a success you navigated the weak sections of the wall and reached the top, on a failure you didn't and fell' is...

no, you misunderstand, i said i would never change the state of the fiction in response to a check, if the wall is solid it's solid, if...

Yet maybe she would: "Despite the crumbly rock and unsure footing, you make it to the top....". This narration efficiently does two...

You want me to explain my feelings? If I don't feel the setting has a sense of independence from me the player, such that my ability to...

Only if the end results are all that matters to you. Is that how it is?

untrue, a complication is still a complication even if you have people who are skilled enough that dealing with it isn't an issue.

Let's think through how the environment relates to DCs, yeah? When the GM sets a DC, that sets certain information about the...

No, you are the one that's still getting it wrong. If we fail on the check we still get the door open, correct? But every single time...

i realize there can be other complications, i was just trying to illustrate how deciding if the cook is there independently beforehand...

Where I consider it poor play by the players. If nothing happens, it's on them to find or create a way to make something happen. Only...

Exactly. I'm reading a book at the moment - an enjoyable story so far other than that the amount of contrivance, where the protagonists...