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I didn't say it's the cause. I said it's a necessary condition. I'm following Mackie here, in treating causes as being insufficient but...

I didn't say it is a good idea. Under what circumstances would you as GM add something to the fiction? It's not in your prep or on the...

Adding a cook to a kitchen seems similar to you as adding a dragon or Luke Skywalker? Okay, I guess. I'm trying to look at it not in...

Yes... but again, you missed my point. The GM can add anything at any time, right? Or must they have everything pre-determined in map...

I'm not sure it's that strange. The posters who object to connecting the consequence to a player-side dice roll take it for granted that...

The point is that if the door doesn’t get opened, there’s no saving the people inside. Again, it was a simple example meant to show how...

Good catch, I find this quite interesting. I can only speak to my table of course how this almost came about for our game (and we were...

Thank you. As you can read, I think that if the surprise/perception mechanic is supposed to be sufficiently representational, than I...

It's a necessary condition. But the analogue to the door scenarios would be this: had you failed to get out of bed, would that have...

No. I didn't say that. I said that it could. Here's an actual example: D&D does not care about the nature of injury suffered when a...

Obviously. I'm not confused about people being surprised. My post is about the mechanic, and how it relates to the time sequence of...

You seem to be confused. "Intent and task" is Burning Wheel resolution. It can be applied in other games played with scene-framing and...

I don't think @Lanefan has significant play experience or other familiarity with RPGs other than AD&D and variants, and so I don't give...

DO they say that, though? I mean, obviously they should.

Which game is "this game"? If it's any good, it will have rules for permissible action declarations.