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Then I’m not following at all why you have an issue with what we’re talking about. If there is a predefined time pressure… it could be...

I suppose I’m not quite sure what that means. The player asks if their character can find herbs, and then maybe a roll happens to see...

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...

Here’s what @Maxperson said: I then offered my solution to this “problem”. The solution I offered works for me and my players. It...

Just travel? No… the characters likely ate and slept and talked and did all manner of things along the way. That we skip it doesn’t...

It all just depends on what’s been established. There is no need to allow anything that could have resulted in an outcome that’s...

No… I think anyone describing them as “two very different things” is exaggerating. No, a player asking if his character can search for...

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...

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

OK, so why did you ask me about it? And then yell at me when I answered your question?

I wouldn’t call them coincidences. If you don’t climb a cliff fast enough, and an ally is therefore killed because you were not there to...

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...

In this case, it’s not about fail forward. It’s about a GM designing a dungeon or a scenario where there is one path forward to...

You. Aren't. Everyone. It wasn't just bad weather. It was sufficiently bad weather that staying where they were was untenable. As...

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