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So because you brought it up again, I think the reason @Faolyn may be suggesting that your inexperience with Blades is affecting your...

I'll not speak for @Hussar here, but I think the point here is that there are many circumstances whereby, in D&D (let's use 3.5 for...

I mean all the stuff in this quote.

Okay. As is rather often the case, your experience has...some pretty dramatic differences from mine, to the point that your examples...

In games that use "fail forward" adjudication, the roll is functionally related to the consequence that gets narrated: the whole point...

I think this line of inquiry is a dead end. Because it is impossible, in a RPG of the typical sort, which involves settings and...

But now you're agreeing with me - there is no in-fiction reason that has been established prior to the rolling of the dice.

But all those prior things were done the same way. It's not like these games are mysterious to me. I've played them. I know how they...

If the dispositions are identical than, by definition, they will. @hawkeyefan and I are not making any assertion about how common such...

But why did the PCs fail to see them? There's no rule in D&D that you can only surprise someone if you are invisible or camouflaged. As...

But this can't literally be true, once we get beyond the most austere sort of map-and-key resolution. For instance, suppose that you're...

Here is the approach I was posting about: At step 2, the GM thinks about the scenario and decides what will happen. That is why I regard...

I didn't say they fully model reality. But they avoid D&D-style stop motion. Which, as I posted, refutes your claim (post 13,269) that...

Er...no? It doesn't take that many iterated rolls. Going back to the 60% chance--what would you consider "near 0"? I would say "less...

Objectively, if you apply the same bonuses--so the only thing that differs is the roll itself--having to pass multiple checks ALWAYS...