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OK, so why did you ask me about it? And then yell at me when I answered your question?

The point I'm trying to make is the point that I'm made: that the DMG advocates author stance; which is something that I said, upthread...

I posted some actual examples from play: Where is the unreasonable coincidence in these examples?

To add to @hawkeyefan's reply not far upthread: It is true that resolving some searching via a die roll, as part of the table catching...

I think because you aren’t refuting the idea of only rolling when something interesting will happen. I expect that’s not a rule you...

For my part, I am trying to get clarity. For instance, are you assuming some version of a D&D rule for when to roll? Are you saying...

On behalf of all of reality… thank you!

Wild stuff!

Well, no, they’re really not that different. Because in neither case did anyone actually go into a forest and collect herbs. In both...

I took @zakael19 to be making a version of the point I'm also making - namely, that if part of the rule for when to roll is provided...

I don't understand what you mean. The rule I stated - roll the dice only when either outcome of a roll is interesting - isn't...

My group came close to trying that once - but a space-time vortex started to form above the table, and so we though better of it and...

I don’t know, it depends on the game, I suppose. I was imagining 5e D&D… in which case I’d likely just have the player make a skill...

No, it works fine and your previous comment was mostly uninformed nonsense.

People can do what they like. But for 1000s of posts in this thread, you and others have been denying that setting-oriented play, in...