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I appreciate your passionate interest in my mental states, but I think I know them better than you do. Here is a post I made over 13...

(Your quote points to the wrong post, so I almost missed this) No, never claimed it was within one combat? The delve would be the...

Right. I just see, mechanically, a slight variant of d20 almost straight out of 3.5e. Saves are translated into defenses, and...

Who doesn't?

No, it's about what failure means for play. My players fail to get their full intent all the time. We had a crap ton of 6-s rolled last...

"Your weapon belt snags on a sharp rock and you watch in horror as your blade falls with a clang to the bottom." Or, same idea, but the...

And we're saying that there is absolutely no difference between one completely arbitrary die roll resulting in an encounter and another...

I've noticed a certain trend in this discussion that, when it comes to identifying features of D&D, combat doesn't count. There is a...

I think the conservatism also shows in the description of "It was certainly a pretty radical departure of design from what came before...

Fair. I was just shocked at how quickly he opened it. PC went off the road to investigate something, found himself in a ditch (failed...

Just as an aside, I once got locked out of my place as the wind blew the front door shut and it auto-locked. As it happened the only...

Yeah, because the person who thinks recognition and acceptance is good is clearly the villain, and the people who think rejection and...

I love how you've turned "it's good when events continue moving forward when you fail" to "these damn MILLENIALS think you should NEVER...

Oh, loss is fascinating. That's totally different then whiffing on a task and then standing around looking at each other.

This is a fair question to ask. I would need to know more context about that Secret Door. i.e. did the party know or heavily suspect it...