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Whoever made the table it controls the result. Especially if it's not just straight numbers--if there's any sort of curve, then the...

If you look at it a certain way, most genres would fall under that same umbrella. The hardcore sim and wargame are left out, of course...

Why not just decide if they have a dog? How does a roll make it better, more real, more honest, or whatever other term you're going to...

Sure. But to the point you're plotting out everyone's movements? Nah. It's much easier to figure out the NPCs' interests and then, if...

It would probably be a bit easier with Daggerheart than 5E due to the PCs being built with backstory and connections as the default...

Scares the bejeebers out of the players?

I've done effective horror with D&D, so I'm sure I can do it with DH.

If I used random encounters, I would roll for the encounter and then set the scene for the encounter that's about to happen in. "You...

But we're back to the question I has several million posts ago: what do you do if the PCs decided to break into a house as a whim, not...

So the lockpick roll… I’d use one roll to determine the outcome overall. I wouldn’t require a lockpick and then a stealth roll to pick...

I didn't say it was likely, just that would end the argument. Like, if you stand up in a room with several Spanish chefs in it, and...

Well, yeah. The better you are at something, the fewer complications there are. And very often, the less time something takes. D&D has...

This highly depends on two things: First off is how much the GM enjoys setting the scene. I'd describe it as tall grass because that...

And, thus we keep up the pretense. Ask yourself this. Why did that group of monsters just happen to meet the party at that point in...

The tall grass ambush is a perfect example. The question that needs to be asked is, "Why is the grass tall?" After all, it wasn't...