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And none of the comments made here since pointing out why the example you sited was incomplete or how it could be made to work have done...

So, basically only one very specific game mechanics is acceptable and all other variations are simply wrong because they're different...

It doesn’t have to happen every time if you don’t want. Some games make Fail Forward an explicit part of the procedures. For other...

The problem is that "solely" is doing some heavy lifting there. I know people who play 5e and PF2e regularly who wouldn't find an...

I mean, it makes sense since classic/trad play is generally oriented around negating or evading obstacles through specific action...

You said "I don't see the same process working for D&D". Since I've used very similar processes in D&D, my experience is different than...

To be fair, in most games which rely heavily on success with complications generally rolls should only be called for when the...

No, because once the cook was established, they'd always been there. Kind of like how the GM may describe a kitchen but only think to...

This, of course, heavily depends on the game and what sort of abilities the PCs have, but let's say that through whatever those...

How big of an area are we talking about? Is it like a wilderness hex? Or more specific than that? I mean... how can you predict with...

I feel like these two sentences conflict to some extent. In the situation as described, the cook would be something in my mind as a...

Or real life history, since medieval cooks would have slept in the kitchen.

Again, both cooks and bears exist in their respective environments and in both cases the process of adjudicating their appearance is the...

Yeah. I just feel like there's this immense kind of mental gymnastics that goes on around "this stuff is ultimately just made up by the...

I don't think this is really true. Let's say we have a scenario where there are two paths through a wood. One passes by a cave where...