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You don't, because you can't. Oh, you can skip past walking somewhere, but you can't go off into the trees to look for herbs the way we...

What some of us find implausible (not impossible) is that something interesting happens every time you roll the dice. We can also find...

Hmm. The outcome isn't fixed; that's why you roll the dice. But the world is fixed. I posted a similar example from Blades a month ago...

When good narration would be "nothing happens" and nothing happens isn't allowed, bad narration is all you've got left.

Sure, you can look at it that way. As I've mentioned several times, the things I'm arguing are simply that a single point of failure...

What the roll locks or unlocks is progression in a different direction and-or with a different purpose. For example, from my own game...

If I'm in a passage that hasn't been disturbed in decades it rather strains credulity that only now does some wandering monster come by...

You keep repeating this phrase as if it's a bad thing. It isn't.

This very much. I’m not interested in oneshots and shorter stuff.

Mostly the same as you. If there’s a big moment that’s close (say 2-4 sessions), I’ll do what I can to speed things up and get to that...

Absent kryptonite, Superman has about +40 in any skill you can possibly think of; and he doesn't auto-fail on a 1. Which is part of...

Also why "Run away!!!" is often heard from adventuring parties.

Not quite. More that they CAN go through the haggling process if they want to, and that sometimes (not always) doing so can make a...

Even if-when 'nothing happens' clearly makes the most in-fiction sense? Depends on the player. It still, however, puts the players...

There is a reason the phrase "Are you SURE you want to do that?" is a mantra in D&D. DM control is as much about saving players from...