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That's the thing. There is no difference. The "random encounter roll" is not connected to anything other than, as you say, having this...

What the fudge does this even mean? IN THE FICTION there either is or is not a cook in the kitchen. The GM says "there is a cook in the...

No. It absolutely does suddenly change height. You describe it as some grass over there and nothing else. That means that the players...

Whoever made the table it controls the result. Especially if it's not just straight numbers--if there's any sort of curve, then the...

Sure. But to the point you're plotting out everyone's movements? Nah. It's much easier to figure out the NPCs' interests and then, if...

Isn’t the wandering monster roll only made once they enter the area? Or once they linger too long or spend time searching an area? But...

My point is that D&D is not a very "simulationist" game: it has lots of mechanics that don't take much input from the fiction, and that...

I thought you play D&D?

The cook is in the house, or perhaps lives in the house and is running an errand, or perhaps works at the house and is running early, or...

No. The GM decides if the cook is there, or not, based on whether the rules tell us that the burglar's attempt to break in went well or...

So if the GM doesn't narrate shadows, or ambient noise, or whatever, does that mean that no roll can be made for the Orcs to be...

Well, it depends. If I’m actually playing a PbtA game like Stonetop… one I’ve recently played a long campaign of… then no, I wouldn’t...

Oh I can accept that because people are saying it… I don’t think anyone is lying. But I also expect that most folks would say that...

I’m still failing to see how successful lock picking would go undetected by potential observers. That would absolutely seem to be part...

But we're back to the question I has several million posts ago: what do you do if the PCs decided to break into a house as a whim, not...