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Apparently he just blocked me too, and I don't know why. There were pretty civil conversations going on.

You might as well just stab yourself, then. Taking your attention off of someone trying to stab you is a good way to die. You're...

Yes, that's a fair point. Instead of time pressure, it would be farier to say, resource pressure with time being one possible resource.

Given RAW unlimited retries, barring some game element preventing it, the rogue will eventually roll a natural 20. That means that...

In this context, no meaningful consequence of failure is being taken as, "no meaningful difference between success and failure". I roll...

I'm going to push back slightly on that last paragraph. You might have unlimited tries at something and be guaranteed to succeed...

No one's saying roll if the situation can't change. The dispute is whether to roll when change isnt guaranteed. Everyone in this...

Sorry. That's one I completely agree with. I'm so tired of rolling dice just to hear the sound they make when they hit the table. If the...

What do you mean by that?

That automatically means that there is a meaningful consequence for failure. ;)

A small difference isn't meaningful and it all has to be taken into account. You can't just ignore the requirement that failure be...

I think what you are saying is the same thing they are saying, just from a different direction. If there is no meaningful consequence...

I read this 5e advice completely differently. The 5e advice seems to be don't call for a check if there is nothing really to check...

Culture is a product of where we come from, not our biology.

This is an interesting exercise, but the only campaigns I personally know that well are my own as I don't run purchased campaigns...