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No. It absolutely does suddenly change height. You describe it as some grass over there and nothing else. That means that the players...

Oh, come on. The ONLY reason the grass suddenly becomes long is because of the ambush, not the other way around. The DM wouldn't have...

And, thus we keep up the pretense. Ask yourself this. Why did that group of monsters just happen to meet the party at that point in...

Your wandering monsters magically teleport to whatever location the party happens to be at the arbitrarily determined time span. The...

The tall grass ambush is a perfect example. The question that needs to be asked is, "Why is the grass tall?" After all, it wasn't...

Just like there might be a cook in the room?

So, to put it another way, there is no actual difference. The only difference is how well we can cover over the fact that the material...

I'll not speak for @Hussar here, but I think the point here is that there are many circumstances whereby, in D&D (let's use 3.5 for...

Don't worry, I know the maths.

Except that it's pretty close most of the time. That's why we have fairly flat bonuses. Most of the d20 tests that you make in 5e D&D...

Continuing the theme

Somewhat adjacent to the last one:

You've never made a group check? That's 4 or 5 rolls right there? You've never had the group climb something? You've never had any...

Er...no? It doesn't take that many iterated rolls. Going back to the 60% chance--what would you consider "near 0"? I would say "less...

Objectively, if you apply the same bonuses--so the only thing that differs is the roll itself--having to pass multiple checks ALWAYS...