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I'd say without a doubt.

I saw this on Tumblr. Am I nuts, or did Erol Otus do an homage to this in his Keep on the Borderlands back cover image?

I'm assuming you're talking about 5E here. If I understand correctly, you would say the PC's task/approach auto-succeeds because it's...

The player wants to throw a rock. It might or might not hit the tree. Everything else is GM-determined.

Okay, that makes sense.

5E muddies the conversation a bit because the thread has so far cast resolution in terms of rolls, i.e. "Roll for Effect"/"Roll for...

If the players ask a bunch of questions, I haven't done a great job at describing the scene as DM. Sure, communication being imperfect...

Your position is that D&D is conflict resolution, and anyone trying to play it under a task resolution lens is doing it wrong?

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!