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True to an extent. But then when I give a concrete example of picking the lock and the quantum cook, I get "What the goal and...

For me, the process is the interesting part only when it's likely by design to produce different end-result outcomes (and-or for widely...

Best I can tell, this is the 4th longest thread on the site. The longest is 28,759 posts. These are rookie numbers.

Good thing you have all that tall grass for the strawman you're constructing. If a GM is adding tall grass after the ambush, I would...

What are you talking about? The kind of world that following the 1ed encounter rules lead to have as far as I have seen been extensively...

I missed this earlier. As the person who came up with the high grass, I specifically mentioned it as being narrated prior to the...

Who said it"suddenly becomes long" I would never describe its length at all unless asked. It would always be long, but described as a...

It doesn't need to be described in detail, just mentioned unless a PC asks more about it, or has a high enough passive perception...

Why did I happen to run into my friend at the grocery store yesterday? Sheer random chance. Same principle applies here. For most...

For like the umpteenth time, there is no teleportation or quantum involved with wandering monsters. None. These are all monsters that...

It wasn't? You sure about that? And had the ground been thusly described then one would think there wouldn't have been an ambush...

Have you met this group? :P

Extreme-Chaotic Nature Cleric + grass seed + Plant Growth = not so unusual as all that. :) There's numerous dungeons I've had...

Seems a reasonable enough action declaration in any game. The difference in a more traditional game being that it's the DM who...

A player could declare for their character (we'll assume this is in line with their BITs), "Jonno's a fisherman, and we need a boat out...