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I really hope there's that kind of lead time.

100% agreed about the pace. But I also wonder if they've learned some from their own playtest and how WotC do theirs — it's better to...

I'm glad they're putting stuff up, but I'm surprised at the pace. The core set had its limited release on 20 May and its wide release on...

I'm guessing that at least some of this stuff was in the works ahead of time and maybe they got cut for space reasons. Except for the...

I love that you think that it's unrealistic for a failed lockpicking check to do any of the above, but don't have a problem with picking...

And the purpose of fail forward design being baked into the rules is to prevent poor GMing from the start. People always complain when...

Interestingly, many of the skills in 5e do exactly what you're describing in regard to a "burglary skill". I mean, Move Silently and...

A fool of myself? Okay, sparky. I don't think so. What's happening is that you are all criticizing the method by attacking the flawed...

Don't forget that most narrative games don't allow this level of player power, though. In one, the GM made it up before, and in the...

Except that if the roll fails, neither the players nor the GM will know what would have been in the kitchen on a success. It's not like...

Y'know, people keep getting hung up on the lock and/or cook, but in reality, this applies to anything. Fail to climb a wall, nothing...

Two new classes & a bunch of ancestries (definitely not genasi) plus communities (Hearthborne is the official take on humble origins) up...

See, then the problem with this is that I consider my games of Stonetop and Spire and Blades in the Dark to be just as...

Y'know, you are right. The random encounter isn't there because he screwed up some roll. That's absolutely true. However, the random...

So you keep saying, even though that's also the most boring consequence.