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What makes that exhausting to you? What, in fact, is that to you and your play at all?

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...

How suddenly did it become long grass?

The cook was probably hiding in the long grass.

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.

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

The grass absolutely doesn't change height, it was from inception tall enough to conceal an ambush. Same as a group of trees doesn't...

Now I'm hungry for a GAP THAC0! 🌮

It is, but folks like to call it goal and approach. Gotta have terms for everything you know. At least they aren't calling it GAP and...

It isn't even an appeal to real authority. Gygax didn't play like the book rules said to, either. He played the game very differently.

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...

Far more fun would be a tarrasque made of ice cream. I mean, if you're gonna go gonzo, why stop at half-measure? :)

So if the GM doesn't narrate shadows, or ambient noise, or whatever, does that mean that no roll can be made for the Orcs to be...

It really depends on the group, as I said I'm constant in my methodology. If a DM was not I can see how it would be a flaw. Take trees...