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All of those skills may be useful for burglary but are in no way limited to burglary nor even necessary for burglary.

It could be connected with my proposal that some modes of play require imagined world to be addressed as if it were real. That's eased...

The existence of a problematic aspect of the wall was established when the need for a roll and the DC was determined. At this point...

Possibly, if I was running the adventure, I would know where the staff where (I generally move tokens around on a VTT GM layer for...

In fairness, we aren't told the staffing levels of this hypothetical house. If it's Downton Abbey then sure, there's multiple kitchen...

One depends on a person’s ability, the other does not.

The adding of colour doesn't change what happens next in the fiction. The adding of the cook very much does, as her screams waken the...

That's what I said. The character is a buffer between the player's roll and the affect in the world. The player is rolling, but it's...

I agree it's more complex that needed and not necessary. However, it does meet the requirements of some people who play the game. For...

Close. The players typically roll to determine how the PC affects the fictional world. The PC is the buffer in-between the two...

Rough to climb takes crumbling rocks into account. It's not adding in a detail retroactively to have a rock crumble under the climbers...

It's not arbitrary. The guard patrols the house at a walking pace. There are X number of rooms and it takes Y time to walk them all...

D&D doesn't provide specific details, but it does provide framework in which the DM's details have to fit. When the simulated swordsman...

Agreed! If the presence is fixed, then the roll could, in principle, have been rolled at any time. I could do it years in advance...

Look at the rules! Swords are made of metal and have edges that slash for physical damage. They come in longswords short swords...