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OK, this is still what I was talking about. The player can still try to hear or see through the door. They may or may not have to roll...

Is the task at hand climbing the cliff, or is it saving the friend at the top of the cliff? Because if the important thing in this scene...

How is it interesting when literally nothing happens? And by nothing, I mean nothing. It doesn't cause time to pass or a clock to...

In that case, you don't skip it, if everyone is cool with it. But what do you do if one PC spends an hour collecting herbs while the...

Perhaps ironically, the bolded bit is actually the most realistic and plausible way to go. In real life, we can make educated guesses by...

But that was making a decision about how the character spent their time traveling. What it wasn't was actually roleplaying out the...

I did. I even responded to you with a description of my city-sandbox (here and elsewhere here, to @AbdulAlhazred). So far, no one has...

No game is entirely GM or player driven. Teamwork makes the dream work.

I'm pretty sure we've been told that it shouldn't happen. If it can't happen, then there wouldn't be lengthy essays and articles about...

I'm going to quote from the new Daggerheart game here, which uses Rolling With Hope to indicate a "good" thing happening (whether or not...

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...

Player: Hey… can I have gathered herbs while we were traveling from Luskan to Neverwinter? GM: Sure, you’d have had plenty of time...

You said it was it's implausible that something interesting happens every time we roll the dice. I responded with why in Stonetop, we...

What you should realize is that "interesting" doesn't mean ZOMG EXCITING!!1!. It means "not nothing." Because nothing is, well, nothing.

Why would "nothing happens" be the only or uniquely good narration that is possible?