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It was very rarely better in 3.5 or 5e to use a spell than a skill. You could generally take 10 or 20 and just succeed at the skill...

Group checks are simultaneous rolls, not consecutive. To be fair, the assumed 60% success rate was specifically for hits in combat, not...

No. That's wrong. The hex had whatever was there the entire time. The DM just doesn't have the time or energy to detail out the...

No, I think @Enrahim has it right here. People seem to be getting tripped up on the idea that random rolls are fixed content. Yes, they...

The perception check abstracts and reflects something that the character inherently does all the time. No one is ever paying attention...

No. For just about every roll someone in the group will have a high stat + proficiency(often expertise) which gives them greater than...

Sure it does. The roll just indicates a monster is going to wander by. The facts about what the PCs are doing, paying attention to...

Then you are really bad at making assessments. If multiple people are making checks, a single success means success for the group...

How was the dirt they were walking on established? Who planted the grass? What kind of tree is it over there? Did the air being...

Doesn't seem like the determinism strawman :) Good. Why is an outcome/event needed if this isn't "because the logic of the fiction...

No in-fiction reason for what before which rolling of the dice? I thought the what here was "characters are surprised" and the "which"...

the problem was never with when the decision was being made, the problem was always with the state of the world changing between the...

Different player groups and types, perhaps. I've seen (and played in) adventuring parties that hared off into the field with far less...

To be clear you were correct. I'm just done with answering the same pointless accusation.

Er, they are being stealthy and sneaking up on the party. That's an in fiction reason established prior to the rolling of the dice...