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And yet 2/3 of respondents to the poll have voted for "Effect".

Maybe you missed it. The player succeeded at hitting the tree.

Agreed, with the caveat that the rules include principles followed by the GM, like this: Another, slightly different, principle I try...

Exactly. The player can make the same action declaration in either case. The question is what the rules resolve. Do the rules resolve...

Sure, you can! All that's needed is for the GM to not maintain the relationship between succeeding at the task and achieving the intent...

As I've argued already in the thread, you have to decide at character creation to be a bard. It's not something you decide later on and...

It doesn't matter, because the character is a bard, not a thief. It means that you roll starting age using the same formula for fighters.

Some novels are well written. Some novels are poorly written. All novels, though, are written; and all (or near enough to all) aspire to...

I think I found an Appendix N example of a sorcerer or maybe a psionicist, Lalette Asterhax, a hereditary "witch", one of the...

Ahmed Ghaleb al-Rahawi, prime minister of Yemen’s Houthi-run government, was killed by Israel in an airstrike Thursday of last week...

Omar Harb, a prominent Palestinian academic, starved to death on Thursday. He was 60 years old.

We're in turn-based combat rounds. Last round, it seems like you didn't take an action on your turn. Maybe you were readying to close...

I'm not arguing the main point that the 1e bard is a silly class (even though I love the idea of a "celtic" bard close to druids), but...

Conflict resolution prevents this because it maintains the connection between success and winning. Task resolution allows it because it...

Here's an example of the difference that happened to me once: The group has infiltrated the enemy encampment and we are in the enemy...