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In Burning Wheel, on a successful roll the task is successful and the intent achieved. On a failed roll, the intent is not achieved -...

This came up a few times in discussions of 4e: what's the DC for a Diplomacy check to allow another character to spend a healing surge...

It depends on the system. Classic Traveller uses random encounters. Torchbearer has random Camp and Town Events; but encounters during...

This is hard to answer because the options are in terms of proportion of encounters and that’s not really how I do it… I voted for...

Okay, I think I was a bit confused because you said hitting the tree with a thrown rock (the task/approach) is trivially easy and...

"Right. I'll block them off, get going!" Copper moves over behind the cart, next to Terren, and braces against the the wall. With a...

No, my understanding of systems that use that principle, like Burning Wheel in which it is phrased as "Roll the dice or say, 'yes'", for...

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?