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Are all those things in the skill description of the rulebook you're using?

Except succeed with complication is more accurate to what's actually occurred. Is it just the alliteration? We can call it "succeed...

Agreed. We are allowed to not like what you like. We are also allowed to feel about it a way you do not feel, or to draw conclusions...

You are arguing against something people here aren't saying. Nobody is saying that it's an invalid technique for those who want to use...

If we're not going to use the technique how important can it's validity to others really be? I officially accept other people like and...

Ah, there's the problem. I avoid metagame as much as I can.

I'm not sure. I've never thought of GMing as "running scenes", and I see no reason to start now.

Oh but think of the story they're creating! ;)

But why is it called failure if you succeeded at what you were trying to do? It really seems like the wrong term to use.

It computes for us, because we don't control much of the real world, very often including who might be behind a door we are going to...

Also it's prep instead of mechanical enforcement.

Yeah. That's how much time you have. Not a lot, but maybe enough to do a couple important things.

For acute lethal radiation exposure in the real world, typically you have minutes to hours. The victim is typically dead in 3 days...

If they're happy with the other implications of the technique, then sure.

But it wasn't in response to the actual attempt to break in. It was in response to needing to know who was in the house and where...