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Exactly - the presence/absence of a cook is unrelated to the success/fail of the door being opened. I would. Absent other pre-narrated...

I’m not following this at all.

If I've followed what you say about this correctly, I agree with most of it. Taking a counter-factual (modal or possible worlds)...

I think the key there is ‘for you’. Not for everyone.

There is no surprise roll. There was a stealth roll. Doesn’t sound like it. It’s the same for NPCs and PCs. The DM must establish...

The proposed example of a scene could be one part of such a breakdown. Adding scenes like this only make sense as long as the players or...

I'm not sure why there is such a push to include Fail Forward in skill challenges in games whose tasks resolution are very singular when...

One problem with our examples is they tend to stop time, and here one needs to extend the example in time to see that "nothing happens"...

See next comment Then everyone agrees! It is just you sort of making a fool of yourself thinking the rest of us are talking about the...

This is exactly what I mean when I say the conflation of "simulationism" and "accurately simulating reality" muddies things. I think it...

To clear the apparent confusion. There is a previously rolled stealth check that gets used to determine surprise but no rolls are...

Then what are other, better options for a D&D game? I found this one because people were only providing examples from other games which...

I think the question, what if the game you were playing did have a burglary skill. Would there be issues around that skill?

Yeah, but you keep going back to what other people say, regardless of topic.

Ummm. You don’t roll to determine surprise in 5e at all. Like I’m not going to make fun of you for not knowing this. Some earlier...