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To be clear, this was not something I decided. This was part of the rather hyperbolic example given by @bloodtide in which they as GM...

To be clear, my preference is for conflict resolution ('rolling for intent') over task resolution ('rolling for effect'). When I GM an...

This thread is in the general forum and is not about your specific preference for adjudication only. To answer your question, though...

Agreed 100%. I addressed this up-thread. Under task resolution they are asking to throw a rock. Whether the guard is distracted is left...

I would literally leave that table.

You have a preference. And yet you don't seem to have voted.

It made the sound the player wanted. Success!

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...