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5e does not have these. I wouldn't be surprised if such rules have not been included as part of the core rules since at least 3e...

I see this as "adding to one's experience" in the same way that clarifying that you don't have blue eyes, you have grey eyes (to...

But that's exactly the issue. This isn't a risk! Explicitly! Because you attempt a thing and, I cannot stress this enough, nothing...

The example I was speaking of was a Thief needing to get into a house, picking a locked door, and failing. If you wish to talk about...

Sure. I had presumed that. I don't really buy that the time--what, a minute? two minutes?--taken to pick a lock is relevant for this...

Okay. So...what is it which builds that "pregnant with possibility" thing out of--as just quoted above--"you failed, it took a few...

I mean it seemed pretty clear to me that that was precisely what Lanefan was previously arguing for, using the locked door as an...

But it's precisely a dead end caused by failing to clear a mechanical hurdle that is the thing I'm talking about. Talking through a...

Do you make your players roll to choose which path they take in the labyrinth? Because this seems a textbook example of something where...

Not as a result of that move, no. This is among the rules that bind the GM--GMs are not free to just do whatever they want, whenever...

(Ignore this, thought I had failed to post it but I had not failed to do so. Sorry!)

If game mechanics themselves can be diegetic, then the entire assertion of the manifesto you yourself linked collapses into a...

I'm sorry, but "you didn't roll high enough, you cannot open the lock" simply isn't "pregnant with possibility". It is nothing but a...

My argument on this is: 1. Yes, that's the description. It is pure "informed ability" as TVTropes would put it. Players simply do not...

Well, it implements the second flavor as something that isn't a failed roll, but rather, a weak successful roll. In D&D terms, the...