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Forget the game for a moment. If you are trying to unlock the door of a burning building, and you fail to do so, and someone inside is...

What @pemerton is almost certainly saying is that the lock is a barrier between the PC and their goal, which is whatever lies behind the...

So if you failed to get into the burning house and then someone inside burned, you would consider that "unconnected" to your attempt to...

Yes, one would think so. Yet here we are!

Yes, that's possible. It is also possible for many other things to happen. It's all contextual. What if the house is on fire? Then is...

It's also silly from the point of view of philosophy of action and causation. A post of mine from a few years ago makes the point...

Common sense in life. Forget play for a minute and think about how things work in the real world. If you forget to pick up milk at the...

What I am talking about doesn’t really have anything to do with the game and is not me telling you anything about bad-wrong-fun. I’m...

Because we’re talking about consequences. There are probably going to be at least a few, and potentially many, depending on so many...

This is probably the silliest bit about this whole branch of the discussion. What it says to me is that people try to pick locks simply...

It seems fairly safe to assume that "we" means literally everyone RPGing since no one playing an RPG is in fact playing a real person in...

We're not playing real people in the real world. We don't want our real lives to be filled with the kind of excitement found in a...

Good lord why are you still stuck on this when we've belabored the exact point from at least 5 different posters with explicit detail...

I am reminded out of the blue of Session 1 of the first campaign I played in 5e and the first game of D&D I'd played since 3e back when...

A few thoughts on this. If there are new players discovering things for the first time, that doesn't mean that seasoned players will...