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Morale checks. Some saving throws, particularly those regarding mental or observational phenomena. Essentially anything social, where...

Nope! He isn't the most boring superhero ever. He is, in fact, the most popular superhero ever. So clearly, he can't be "the most boring...

Sure… but then that’s not because of the single point of failure issue we’re talking about. Yes, that’s one way to handle it. As I...

But it is a cost directly caused by the failure. If you had successfully overcome the difficulty of the cliff, your friend would be...

Did I ever say they NEVER haggle? No. I said it was ridiculous that absolutely every merchant will ALWAYS haggle, no matter what. And...

And if the repairman's work is inadequate? Because that's a thing that happens IRL. A lot. I would know.

I for bloody sure agree WAY WAY WAY WAY more than "well we say there's a style but really there's 7000 almost totally unique people who...

Again: Why not? You're asserting this like it's a universal truth, something self-evident. It isn't. Not even in old-school D&D.

Is it that fail forward doesn't work there? Or is it that there are multiple ways to view failure even in that context, and thus it is...

No. The point was, very specifically, that the players must play this out, unless they explicitly say they don't want to. Because my...

So the reason is "because I want every single check to have a single specific defined success result and a single specific defined...

Okay. How is that different from what I originally said? Lanefan specifically said it is that the players WILL have to go through the...

Yep! A huge part of WoW improving its reception by gamers generally was by moving away from old-school-D&D design, and WoW itself was a...

Agreed. They should have had it as only ever a GM-assigned modifier to the circumstances of that roll. That is to say, no published...

And the former was rampantly overused. Weapon of first resort when it was designed as a weapon of last resort.