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In a situation like that I might try a different approach such as booting the door in.

No, however my means of gaining entry to my house are - for the time being - no longer going to involve the front door. I might try...

Sure. Your milk example is a stripped-down version of the "butterfly effect" where one minor thing leads to another until something...

I don't comment on your games. I've asked questions here and there to get a better understanding. So why do people keep accusing me of...

I'm talking about the consequence as well. The consequence of failing to pick a lock is that the door, chest or whatever was locked...

I'd like to think we're playing people who could be real in a world that could be real given the parameters under which the setting was...

Which could be reflective of their characters' feelings - some want to keep trying, others want to give up. Eventually it might take...

Literally hours? Half an hour? Several minutes? If it's the first one, unless it's something the group is really into it's bad GMing...

I expressly don't look at it from the perspective of the story, because for these purposes I don't care about the story. Instead,I...

For me, if stalling out would sometimes happen were these characters real people then stalling out happening sometimes in the fiction is...

DISCLAIMER: I'm just expressing my opinion an preferences here, there's nothing wrong with how you do what works for you. I'd include...

I like the 2024 approach. The “default” setting would be Greyhawk in the DMs Guide, but even this is an active choice. I prefer D&D...

They don't? How dare they market these games without including the friends they promised in the advertising! :)

I view the variety of experiences in D&D to be a strength, not a weakness. I don't want a world predefined for me when I DM, when I...

To a point. The placement of oceans, islands, volcanoes, rivers, and other geography doesn't give a flip about the rule-set you're...