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Thank you for pointing this out! I have done some work to try to clean up the D&D combat terminology, and this particular spell has...

So your issue is that the GM can make decisions about the world the characters exist in? Describe the terrain they're passing through...

I've taken the liberty of adding numbers to your list below, to make it easier to speak to specific points without having to retype or...

If that's the case - that the D&D system itself isn't doing any simulating and is instead getting out of the way so the DM and players...

Which is a glaring error of omission in the blog's scene-set. Time of day (or night) makes a pretty big difference to almost...

I think the key there is ‘for you’. Not for everyone.

Well, unarmoured Elves and Hobbits are stealthy. Rangers are more observant. Never mind Monks, who use an entirely different surprise...

One problem with our examples is they tend to stop time, and here one needs to extend the example in time to see that "nothing happens"...

Maybe; but in fairness my in-the-moment example didn't go that far back. But unless the area is known to be almost dead flat, an...

Someone has to write a song now: "The Lone Wolf of Quantum Ridge".

From the perspective of the abstracted gameplay, however, it doesn't matter if you dodged the swing completely and took no damage or...

Sure they have - they've simulated the feeling-out process where combatants size each other up and see what the other is made of, and...

Exactly - the presence/absence of a cook is unrelated to the success/fail of the door being opened. I would. Absent other pre-narrated...

Respectfully, there have been maybe a dozen comments clarifying that the issue is not the cook's presence in the kitchen in the abstract...