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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...

Yep. The DM will describe the cliff most of the time, and most of the rest of the time the players will examine it to see if it's...

Heh. Just to inject a little levity into the conversation:

He's wrong about that, too. You don't need to spend significant time and effort quantifying, formalizing and then calculating outcomes...

Look at the rules! Swords are made of metal and have edges that slash for physical damage. They come in longswords short swords...

Holy semantical nonsense Batman! There's no lock picking skill, there's only proficiency with thieves tools whose only purpose is to...

The hinges don't squeak and the item in front of the door doesn't get bonked because you picked or failed to pick the lock, those things...

It is a comedy trope, all be it a rather dated one, generally accompanied by Yakety Sax.

In our playstyle it would be against our unwritten (see social contract) play principles for the DM to just arbitrarily decide such...

D&D does that in spades. Gravity is simulated. Weapons are simulated. Armor is simulated. Walking is simulated. Ships are simulated...

First, even that simulates gravity. The point is that it doesn't matter why DM is narrating with the bounds of the games simulated...

Okay, but that's not what I argued. I asked WHY the system has to be the one to the lifting in order for there to be verisimilitude...

The rock is pre-established and is there whether they climb or not.

First, they aren't probably moving about. Very few people are constantly roaming around the house at every minute of the day. They are...

Surprise depends on passive perception beating the DC of the roll of the stealth. So passive perception is the king here. Let me ask...