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Not wanting to waste any more time and concerned the drow may seek his freedom whether the idol is recovered or not, Terrin runs to the grate, drops down, and continues down the tunnel to join Stryke. Terrin takes the Dash action and moves as far down the tunnel as possible.

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 wouldn't require a roll. By that, I understood you to mean the task would automatically succeed, no roll required, and it does appear that you are having the rock hit...

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 an action declaration to be permissible, it needs to pass the following two tests, both of which are decided (informally) by table consensus: a) it has to be...

I'd say without a doubt.

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 trivially easy, but you would deny them automatic success on their intent/goal and put it to a roll possibly leading to its failure. I'd say this is task...

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 Intent", whereas in 5E, outside of the combat system, which is a conflict resolution system, the DM is part of the resolution system which, now that I think of it...

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 decided it "will never work" in their game. Granted, their example included the player stipulating that "the guard abandons his post and goes into the woods...

This thread is in the general forum and is not about your specific preference for adjudication only. To answer your question, though, it's because task resolution only cares about resolving the task.

Agreed 100%. I addressed this up-thread. Under task resolution they are asking to throw a rock. Whether the guard is distracted is left up to the GM, but I think this raises some issues that are somewhat separate from task vs. conflict resolution. The first is whether it's acceptable for the GM...

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 to follow is "Say yes or roll the dice."