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So the issue isn’t that the « cook appeared out of nothing » which as we’ve established occurs whether the GM uses fail forward or a...

Coming up with a narration for why a cook might be in the kitchen of a manor house late at night doesn’t require some exceptional DMing...

Wizard’s tower? I don’t know where that came from. I’ve been talking about the example that was linked with the cook and the kitchen.

Way to assume the worst. As has already been explained to you… by me and by @Campbell , it’s just a different type of GMing. Must you...

But, if the party was a couple of miles east, then they would still be in the forest but not at that location. So, still quantum...

Decided in what way? Written down in some way? Included in some boxed text? Statted out as full fledged NPC? Is it not enough to...

Whether you like or not, 4e was as much a traditional D&D game as AD&D or BECMI. Fail-forward is not an optional rule in either DMGs I...

The cook would also be there whether or not you break in at all, let alone unsuccessfully.

I was only referring to versions of D&D for which I feel sufficiently confident I correctly remember a reference to failing forward...

It is even better than this! Why did the random encounter happen? Because the random encounter clock ran out and a check was required...

Oh man, wait until you hear about Yahtzee.

I don’t think that’s true. The cook may not be statted or planned previously, but it exists as a concept just like the millions of...

I’m reliably told that adversary rosters with interesting encounters off a randomized chance to appear are not quantum and make a...

I see a huge difference between an ogre which appears in front of you no matter what you do, and a cook who appears in response to a die...

Well, it’s from 1e, so it’s probably fine. :)