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For sure. I'm saying here that a player who's looking to find the correct sequence of 3 decisions that gets them out scott free isn't...

There's a framing problem here though; it's not a question of "scenes" at all to the player enjoying the exploration element here. If...

That's... Just exactly the problem again, and also seems incredibly prone to negotiation, a thing I think is an unalloyed bad, but...

Right, we should be able to do better than "this isn't a problem" and "this is the solution to problem" as our only points of...

Even in a D20 system, a lot of it will depend on the way difficulty is scaled, but you still have to deal with the question of whether...

I'd like to add that the eddying or dead-ending that could be feared need not arise in play so long as the group will accept nothing...

I'm a big proponent of Take 10/20, definitely the most maligned mechanic from the era. They cleared up most of the issues of the big...

Technically yes, but the story in that game fits in a postage stamp and is well beside the point. From a gameplay perspective, you are...

It's great! MT has a higher drive toward "escape velocity" than StS. It gives you ample opportunities to exceed the obvious design...

I'm coming from a 3e table, primarily. Dice were for fighting and for cases you're forced to use a skill you aren't good at. Nearly...

That's been a big change in my experience; I started with an understanding that dice are the failure state. Good play involves...

Well, part of the problem is that sometimes there's process where failure is providing information that may be desirable for changing...

I can't help but think PF2 really didn't understand the value of defaulting mechanics like Take 10, I suspect largely as a result of...

Intent is expressed through action declaration; the process outputs a climb speed, which a player uses to change the situation somehow...

I mean, I don't think it's particularly controversial to point out that for D&D, or at least traditional D&D (3e and before), the point...