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If he has a 60% chance to pick it I expect him to not be able to pick it 40% of the time. Giving the thief a 60% chance to pick a lock...

In this context, no meaningful consequence of failure is being taken as, "no meaningful difference between success and failure". I roll...

For me, what it adds to the game is verisimilitude. If an action has a chance of failure, and particularly if success and failure lead...

No one's saying roll if the situation can't change. The dispute is whether to roll when change isnt guaranteed. Everyone in this...

In a manner of speaking, I suppose. However, what I keep hearing here is that any situation where after a roll the DM narrates "nothing...

Yes there is, if there's a meaningful consequence for success.

Meaningful consequences or not, @Micah Sweet has it right: if the outcome is in doubt it should be rolled for. What gets lost here (and...

I think there is a difference. My reading is chance of failure means check to determine failure or success, regardless of how big a...

That "meaningful consequence of failure" is just a failure possibility that is distinct from a success possibility. Which the two follow...

Not quite. You are reading meaningful consequence of failure as requiring an evaluation of the significance of the failure. The text...

Those all sound like meaningful consequences to me, and one of them is likely to apply to some degree nearly all the time, so to me to...

I read this 5e advice completely differently. The 5e advice seems to be don't call for a check if there is nothing really to check...

I think its not a VERSUS. Sometimes you need or want player skill, sometimes character skill. For me personally TTRPG is about making...

It doesn't add to the game. Rather, it subtracts from the game in that there's less challenge for the PCs, and by extension the...

You've just reminded me of something a lot of DMs seem to call for a roll for: jumping. Seems all too often when a PC has the requisite...