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I don't recall 2 am being a feature of the example set out in the blog: It’s classic roll playing, you’re at a house, the door is...

These desires can be satisfied using resolution systems that are not "simulationist" at all. I know this from my own experience! EDIT...

I suppose of the lock picker shouts that would work, but the just the sound of picking the lock probably wouldn't be enough. I do get...

By the sound made by the lockpicking. It is not necessarily unlikely that a cook could hear such an attempt. We’ve already suggested...

See, then the problem with this is that I consider my games of Stonetop and Spire and Blades in the Dark to be just as...

Do I see how it's different? Yes. I'm not sure if this helps reveal anything, and I think it continues to kind of misconstrue things...

100% this!

Well of course if you assume that the check is to be framed in terms that don't suit "fail forward" resolution, then "fail forward"...

My understanding of the situation, as described, was that the check was to pick the lock so as to successfully gain ingress. If you want...

@thefutilist and I and @hawkeyefan all discussed this upthread. A cook is implicit in a kitchen, in the same way that soldiers are...

So what? It's an example. Not the only possibility. Ignore it and move on.

Quantum ridge! Quantum wind! (On top of the regularly-scheduled quantum wolf.) @Maxperson, @AlViking: notice how the ridge is...

I have no idea what this has to do with anything. The original example was… as has been pointed out many times… flawed. The...

Your last sentence contains an ambiguity: you use "causes the cook to be there" without clarifying whether you mean causes, in the...

In the same way that critical discussion of Hamlet often begins with a consideration of Shakespeare's text, so my critical discussion of...