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I've been assuming the presence of at least some lock-picking skill beyond the typical norm on the part of the person trying to get...

I pondered this a bit, and I think I have an answer for you. The critical notion is the commonality you express: "in each case the GM...

A failure on a check can be just a minor setback. You fail your perception check and knock something over does not mean the guard comes...

YOU don't know. WE know. If the guard would hear a singing failure, he also hears a singing success. He is in the same spot. The...

Not for the first time, I find myself wishing the "like" options included a facepalm emoji... :)

Hear, Hear!

I agree.

As GM I want my players to succeed most of the time. They won't succeed 100% of the time at everything they try. As GM I want to...

The bolded is where the mistake is made, if someone's doing it like that. Ideally, in a granular resolution system, the degree of...

I once had someone try using loaded dice in my game as a joke; it was blatantly obvious after a couple of rolls that those dice were...

"Such a paucity of information" just means the players, in character, have to do a little work and get their fictional hands dirty...

"City Beyond the Gate" was the name of the adventure. The City Beyond the Gate

I like it (pardon the pun). What it saves are hundreds of posts sayng nothing but "I agree" or "Hear, hear!".

The same sound occurs whether successful or failure. If one alerts the cook, the other should as well. This is one of the major...

This misses the point of the example. I thought everyone at this point was aware that the problem situation at hand require the cook to...