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To be fair, simple whim might drive the players to choose an alternate path. I'd argue part of the point of playing a TTRPG of any...

In your particular example there wouldn’t be a difference. But depending on precisely the players do in that 5 seconds it might matter a...

Especially since if they are forewarned about the two paths like that, they might opt to go off trail to avoid both locations...

Maybe. I think they may view you as having just pushed the actual problem off to the cat instead of the person coming to the door...

Lets use that example of the party trying to break into a kitchen (forget the rest of the backstory, as I have not been following every...

If you're in the woods and encounter a bear does it matter if it's not the same bear you would have encountered a couple miles east...

It's not gamist. It's simulationist. If there's a bear over there in the woods, that's where it is at regardless of what anyone...

For some reason there are folks who can't just accept the idea of different strokes.

Disagree. 4e was explicitly less traditional than any official D&D game before or since, both mechanically and in the lore. It wouldn't...

That is a worthwhile question for trying to bridge the two playstyles.

That raises a good question. Is there any way to procedurally generate content that won’t make a traditional oriented player feel like...

I realize I've been shuffled into a 3rd rail, but I don't think that's quite fair. As you pointed out, everyone is fundamentally...

Whereas I don't mind if I prep some stuff and the group uses a teleport scroll that I forgot they had to bypass a chunk of it. As long...

Outside of thinking of some cool monsters and scenes, this is exactly why I don't prep. :)

You can still do prep (Guidance, Potion, Rage) and still miss on an attack. The 7-9 in that game reflects a consequence must arise. Your...