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Y'know, you are right. The random encounter isn't there because he screwed up some roll. That's absolutely true. However, the random...

It does not matter who made the roll, it's the purpose of the roll and what the roll represents. A sleight of hand to open a lock is...

Then what on earth does "being a simulation" even MEAN? Because at this point you've reduced it to little more than "doing what I like...

The thing you quoted said nothing about your views. It said that the game under discussion--D&D--is not a very good simulationist game...

Totally unrelated to anything but it reminds me of a bad joke A horse walks into a bar and orders a drink. The bartender recognizes...

I imagine that this is far, far more likely. Portraying the Chinese as aggressively fielding warships is not going to fly, like, at...

I really think Japan in this movie is actually supposed to be China but they changed that because they didn’t want to offend the Chinese...

But, you do. This is exactly the same process that you use. You choose to have an event occur (or rather the dice choose for you) and...

I don't know if my take is actually logical or even accepted interpretation. But it's satisfactory to me because it is an...

Heh, I drafted and deleted some version of this comment over-and-over because I couldn't get the wording quite right. But that is the...

And there we have it perfectly laid out. The encounter is rolled FIRST. THEN the scene is created to make the encounter flow in the...

For the players maybe. But, for the DM? Seriously?

So the wandering monster roll determines the PCs’ location not the monsters? That seems weird. I would think if the roll indicates a...

That's the thing. There is no difference. The "random encounter roll" is not connected to anything other than, as you say, having this...

This could easily be true. The PC's spot the ambush because the grass wasn't long enough. They succeed on their perception check, so...