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you don't see how 'on a success you navigated the weak sections of the wall and reached the top, on a failure you didn't and fell' is...

Correct. The helmsman was guaranteed to fail (in some form or other) because prior faulty decisions and orders had put him in that...

The adding of colour doesn't change what happens next in the fiction. The adding of the cook very much does, as her screams waken the...

I'm not so much trotting it out as trying to point out the contradiction in what (was it Hussar?) said, that D&D doesn't simulate...

Close. The players typically roll to determine how the PC affects the fictional world. The PC is the buffer in-between the two...

As a starting point, perhaps, when the PCs arrive. But you then need to know how long it'll be before they are in the location the PCs...

At a basic level, I agree with this. However... ....if getting what the characters want involves a lot of meta-play - e.g. acquiring...

That's been a sticking point with me as well. 5e bundles too much together. My desert nomad who has never been in enough water to swim...

Which while I'm sure this worked for you in the moment, is also a direct violation of the integrity of the roll. The roll said the...

And if the players don't ask for more detail then should someone try to climb that cliff and fail the DM is free to narrate whatever she...

Not sure about this. You could have a pretty simulative game come out of designing a setting then turning the players loose for...

Yeah, this is one point of disconnect. If the players in your game are not trying to win, if the social contract underlying it says that...

The player hoping it was something dictated that it was the thing they hoped for because they succeeded. They shaped the world to what...

You want me to explain my feelings? If I don't feel the setting has a sense of independence from me the player, such that my ability to...

Assuming the ship can be turned in time to miss the iceberg. That's what did in the Titanic: the ship's design was such that it took so...