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To be fair, in most games which rely heavily on success with complications generally rolls should only be called for when the...

No, because once the cook was established, they'd always been there. Kind of like how the GM may describe a kitchen but only think to...

What I personally find frustrating is that many people approach from the perspective of there being this like platonic form of...

Or real life history, since medieval cooks would have slept in the kitchen.

To be fair, simple whim might drive the players to choose an alternate path. I'd argue part of the point of playing a TTRPG of any...

I don't know what to tell you. If your opinions on RPGs are based on "For 35 years, I've played D&D, and occasionally we've branched...

And that is the point. Things happen. If they are going to happen, the question is how much one is willing to embrace Things Happening...

I'll be honest, I find interactions with people who aren't curious about new things and prefer to stick to and defend the status quo to...

How big of an area are we talking about? Is it like a wilderness hex? Or more specific than that? I mean... how can you predict with...

I feel like these two sentences conflict to some extent. In the situation as described, the cook would be something in my mind as a...

For sure. And since I play with a pretty broad group of people across multiple tables and systems, understanding those different...

You can still do prep (Guidance, Potion, Rage) and still miss on an attack. The 7-9 in that game reflects a consequence must arise. Your...

I understand your point, but I think your particular desire for gamist strategic structures is probably out of the scope of even this...

I mean, we've established that you really shouldn't use a lot of fail-forward if your focus of play is on navigating pre-established...