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Yeah, that's the difference in how we view this. You roll the dice to change the situation. I roll the dice to see if the situation...

Because it's uncertain whether the Thief can open the door. He only has a 60% chance, remember? Oh, and I should point out there's no...

You misread me. The situation doesn't have to change on both results but it does have to change on one, where "nothing happens" can be...

Yes, that's a fair point. Instead of time pressure, it would be farier to say, resource pressure with time being one possible resource.

Given RAW unlimited retries, barring some game element preventing it, the rogue will eventually roll a natural 20. That means that...

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...