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I fully accept your preferences. What personally bothers me is the way you leap to conclusions about how these techniques are used in...

Right. I posted this about a month ago upthread: More recently I posted that examples of bad narration don't show that good narration is...

But it was said we only roll if there are stakes. What are the stakes? What does it mean to unsuccessfully climb a wall? But not...

Huh? The whole of D&D combat resolution ignores forward-facing causality. Person A does their 6 seconds worth of stuff. Then we go back...

People are claiming, in the abstract and without any evidence adduced from actual play examples, that Burning Wheel - one of the...

I don’t think that’s in any way what anyone was advocating for. I think you’ve misunderstood quite a bit.

Extra? I would always assume foraging over a long journey. Hunting, gathering what can be found, and so on. I mean, they make camp...

Then I’m not following at all why you have an issue with what we’re talking about. If there is a predefined time pressure… it could be...

I suppose I’m not quite sure what that means. The player asks if their character can find herbs, and then maybe a roll happens to see...

How does this jibe with the below? This is precisely my point. If there are no stakes… no time pressure, no chance of damage, etc…...

Here’s what @Maxperson said: I then offered my solution to this “problem”. The solution I offered works for me and my players. It...

Just travel? No… the characters likely ate and slept and talked and did all manner of things along the way. That we skip it doesn’t...

It all just depends on what’s been established. There is no need to allow anything that could have resulted in an outcome that’s...

No… I think anyone describing them as “two very different things” is exaggerating. No, a player asking if his character can search for...

But that was making a decision about how the character spent their time traveling. What it wasn't was actually roleplaying out the...