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Yeah that kind of thing is a ham-handed attempt to make up for a flaw in the premise of the rules. IMO.

If you choose to use reaction rolls, you're still beholden to the results, even if they lead to a negative conclusion. As a GM I'm fine...

If my GM wanted to make all my skills rolls so I don't know if how close I was to success or failure, I could get behind that. It would...

That's how some games I like do it too. That rule from AD&D about having to level before you can try again always rubbed me the wrong way.

I think the original point has drifted somewhat. I was proposing (facetiously) that a single failure to pick a lock would remove the...

But... that's entirely accurate to how things work in real life. You don't know that picking a lock, fixing your PC, climbing a high...

Physical skills don't involve motive.

The way I see it, the reaction roll exists to ease the burden of the GM and to allow for the unexpected while still having most results...

I'm not denigrating it per se. I've just got two fairly big issues with it, but they're both from where I sit and don't expect them to...

RAW doesn't matter. RAI either, at least in the games I prefer. I truly believe that. What matters is what you and your Players want...

That, by itself, blows my mind. Maybe that's all I want out of this. I feel like my style of roleplaying is being denigrated in these...

Again, what counts as science fiction to you?

Where are you getting this frankly outrageous claim from? "More people dislike Star Trek than like it"? Please provide a shred of...

My point is that in-universe, none of that is considered magical. It's science. To me, that makes it science fiction.

I already capitulated to @Maxperson . I don't care if it's RAW.