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Just to make sure, are you perhaps conflating "goal and approach" with BW's "intent and task"? Goal and approach is simply advice to...

Going by the cultures of play article, Gygaxian D&D would be "classic", not "trad", so yes?

The GM has to serve as the senses of the PC, but at the same time, it's simply not feasible to narrate every detail that we actually...

To use this as a springboard, a question for @AlViking @Maxperson and others who care about the independence of the world: How do you...

In D&D(5e), going undetected by potential observers would be Dex (stealth/sleight of hand) vs Wis (perception). For locked doors, the...

The cook was probably hiding in the long grass.

To me it's clear that some folk dislike making a skill roll to pick a lock the prompt that results in adding a cook to the fiction. For...

For him. You can't apply that to any of the rest of us who haven't said we do it like that. I don't.

Hey. A little less universalization here.

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...

Yes, but not as anything that has to do with what happens after a failure. Goal and approach are just to inform the DM of what you are...

So I don't know how the game I play works. Gotcha. I don't see any need to retrofit anything and while I owe Gygax a certain amount...

I proposed this kind of thing earlier, and I've been thinking about it since. I think it solves a little better for player agency than...

it's not inconsistent, the wandering monster is not being determined by the same roll that the players are using for a check, it is...

One of the stark contrasts with "Moves" is that they're typically about the intended goal (i.e. what/why), whereas in a trad/sim RPG the...