Recent content by Gimby

Depending on the household, certainly. The cook may well not be involved in serving the food at all, that may well be the job of other servants.

I mean, you are asking him to coin new jargon here rather than using well understood terms from outside of the hobby - given the general tenor against academic terms and desire for casual communication, that seems counterproductive.

As an aside on the crumbling cliff thing - why would we narrate such a thing in the first place? We know it's to provide a narrative reason to explain the mechanical failure on the check, but we've got a wide suite of reasons why to could be. We could narrate that the climber's grip gave out...

It doesn't even need to be a sustained period - given how short 5e levels 1 and 2 can be in terms of encounters it's very straightforward for them to be obtained over a day or two for which we can account for all of the Wizards time. The point is that there are no rules as to what actions a...

Agreed, though it's fairly trivial to conceive of a situation whereby the knocking off of the mask is the salient thing (perhaps it is valuable, or magical, perhaps it is the source of the difficulty in the scenario) whereas the identity of the wearer isn't (our party of right thinking...

I think the point here is that the GM has to agree with the stakes first - it's not that the roll is made and then on a success the player has free rein to say what the runes are, it's that the players and GM before agree that the request is reasonable (so authorship is shared) so on a success...

It's been a while, but I think it was the party was stuck outside a secret door and the adventure couldn't continue till they found it, so everyone was standing around awkwardly till someone rolled high enough to find it.

Didn't we get an example of this in one of the 5e launch streams? Something like Acquisitions Incorporated?

It's not quite player rolls or dm rolls - it's attacker rolls or defender rolls. The example in the 3e UA is player rolls, but it's extensible. We are talking about miss for half damage, I agree. I use the 3e UA rules to convert saves into attacks vs defences. I cast a fireball at a...

I think @Maxperson covers this, but I'm talking about the case when reshuffling saves to attacks on defences. This is nearly identical mechanically, takes precisely the same fictional inputs and delivers precisely the same fictional outputs. The only mechanical difference is who physically...

Perhaps I'm not being clear here. I'm not even talking about a narrativist case here, just purely 3/5e D&D. In basic operation of the game, if I make a normal physical attack, I miss if I do not beat the AC of my target with the sum of my attack bonus and die roll. If I convert saves to...

I think the idea here is that in some implementations of this (I want to say some early CoC, but that might not be right, or possibly some 2e NWPs) do not take the difficulty of the task into account - this might not even be text, just culture of play (So for CoC all the example checks in a...

Sure, but mechanically all a miss means is that you didn't reach the target number on the die - you can absolutely shuffle who rolls and what bonuses apply to what target to make the 3e+ save system into an attack vs defence system that has misses in it. At which point, save for half becomes...

Right, which is I think why we did see early attempts to make what the mechanics represented fictionally more transparent (We can disagree about how effective they were, but it's a commonly stated influence for the development of RM and so on) My general point is that the split we saw on this...

You claimed that there was a difference between Save for Half and Damage on a Miss based on the fiction. I demonstrated that this wasn't true based on the Fireball example - the only difference was whose hand the die left and a reshuffling of the bonuses and target numbers - the fictional...