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No chance someone who works at the prison gets drunk at the tavern and mentions it?

I think that would be pretty unrealistic. Everyone knows that pseudo-mediaeval prison guards never drink to excess!

Why wouldn't it? Where is it laid up in RPG heaven that passion and motivation are things that don't matter in RPG action resolution?

To be clear: I am not complaining about turn-by-turn combat resolution. I'm just pointing out that it doesn't conform to forwards...

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...