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Well, no, they’re really not that different. Because in neither case did anyone actually go into a forest and collect herbs. In both...

My group came close to trying that once - but a space-time vortex started to form above the table, and so we though better of it and...

Note that the poster corrected the accidental omission of the word "don't", which rather heavily changes the meaning of the text.

I don’t know, it depends on the game, I suppose. I was imagining 5e D&D… in which case I’d likely just have the player make a skill...

My bad… I left out the word “don’t” in the last sentence there. Changed the meaning from what I intended pretty drastically! I’ve edited...

No, it works fine and your previous comment was mostly uninformed nonsense.

Player: Hey… can I have gathered herbs while we were traveling from Luskan to Neverwinter? GM: Sure, you’d have had plenty of time...

A) I was trying to communicate how the game I run the most tries to address those concerns/points you raised, such that it avoids...

Right. This is why, upthread, I posted this: As you say, if the dice are only being rolled when interesting things can happen either...

You said it was it's implausible that something interesting happens every time we roll the dice. I responded with why in Stonetop, we...

My Stonetop campaign went for over two years. Biweekly sessions, so probably wound up at 65ish sessions. Great game.

Let's recast this a bit: when I run Stonetop, we roll the dice because we are doing something interesting, there's an obstacle of some...

Not that PBTA design precludes this. We do an awful lot of setting discovery in Stonetop, it's a core component of the Agenda and...

I just found this on DnDBeyond: The Social Contract of Adventures You must provide reasonably appealing reasons for characters to...

Wouldn't this depend, at least in part, on the rule that tells you when to roll the dice?