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

The system I've been considering that allows for tiers of success and failure uses different DCs.

Agreed! If the presence is fixed, then the roll could, in principle, have been rolled at any time. I could do it years in advance...

Or else it's basic math. :)

Even if doing that was in the rules(and I'd allow it anyway if a player did that), it still wouldn't matter much unless the PC fell into...

Rough to climb takes crumbling rocks into account. It's not adding in a detail retroactively to have a rock crumble under the climbers...

It's not arbitrary. The guard patrols the house at a walking pace. There are X number of rooms and it takes Y time to walk them all...

Yeah, which I viewed as a fairly big step backwards. Those were really great roleplaying aids, especially for new players. I'm not...

Sure… whether such bundling is good or not is a matter of preference. But it’s very present in 5e. I suppose you could at least take a...

D&D doesn't provide specific details, but it does provide framework in which the DM's details have to fit. When the simulated swordsman...

In actual game play it goes something like this. DM: "You guys have been tracking the goblins for two days now. The tracks lead you to...

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...

Many games, including D&D, may have Sim or Narrativist-leaning mechanics in different parts of their rules, without being fundamentally...

I'm actually going to be in rare agreement with you. Success with a cost does work in traditional play if the DC is two tiered. DC 15...

No. It also works if you take it in the context that saying is used. It's used in the context of human on human violence, which in D&D...