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I stated my view: that D&D surprise rules, from AD&D and from 5e, involve retrofitting a fictional explanation of a situation whose...

But a burglary check clearly does involve other people - all the people who are in, or might be in, the place being burgled. As I...

In the same way that critical discussion of Hamlet often begins with a consideration of Shakespeare's text, so my critical discussion of...

Huh? Competence is all about what a person says and does. You seem to think that an amateur burglar is just as likely to blunder into a...

If you don't like the fiction, don't narrate it. I mean, you're coming up with fiction that you think is silly, then presenting it as...

You can put the cook there on a success as well. Remember, the cook is one example of what can be done with a failed lockpicking...

All the comments I keep seeing are about the cook’s presence in the kitchen. That she’s “be there either way” and the like. Her...

That is true. But if you need a logical, in-game explanation for why failing to pick a lock alerts a cook, there it is.

Well, that's part of it, and part of it is what hit points are. If you roll fatigue and minor injury into that pile too, its not that...

I feel like this has the goalpost sliding a little bit. For some of the people here, especially in this discussion, the style of...

I think this is pretty common - Save for Half is, essentially, identical to Damage on a Miss - the only difference is who rolls the dice

I'm similar. I run the games that please my players. There's a ton of stuff out there I'm interested in playing that my usual players...

They got in quietly and cleanly enough to not wake anyone up.

I'd say that is an equally valid way of looking at it, but it comes down to whether one is viewing it from the character, or the task...

Whilst I haven't explicitly advocated it on these boards, I am a proponent of it, but then you seem to consider me "Narrativist-leaning...