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Success with complications first requires a 'success' to be rolled on the die. To get what you're after you'd have to lower the DC for...

I assumed the whole reason to bring it up after the fact was to satisfy player curiosity. Otherwise I don't believe @Lanefan had any...

All of those things could happen, and they don't lessen the experience of the campaign and the journey to me. I was part of a...

The issue that I have is that the story moves forward in some way that is interesting to the GM, the group has no say in how things move...

In 5e, true. But not in every edition.

In my experience, it almost never plays out that way. More likely it will go something like... (In war council with the Duke) Duke...

Sure, and if that's the case then it'd be noted on the map or present in the GM's head as a possible complication. Many GMs might not...

Oh, I dunno - random NPCs as collateral damage matter too, especially when the PCs (rightly or wrongly) then get billed for a boatload...

The difference is clear as day, and has nothing to do with how the cook was created or placed there: In a trad game, in order to meet...

Let's walk through the screaming cook scenario as I see it. The character's goal is to break into the estate to get a map. I'm assuming...

They should be encountered in the fiction. Then a skilled thief can use their stealth and misdirection to avoid them. "You're level 4...

Yes And no. This is explicitly more quantum than the other. In the wandering monster case, the events are independent--your skill at...

IMO, no, if entry is to be made via picking the lock - a task at which you've just failed and thus the lock is not picked. A bad...

This is absolutely a valid stance. I just want to bring to some extra attention that it gives the effect that a player might prefer to...

Yes, it does. If the PCs are mechanically very distinct from NPCs of the same species, then they aren’t recognizably people, they’re...