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I largely agree. That is why I call one approach a GM-driven approach, which I tend to find rather railroad-y, and the other not. Ditto.

The reason we cannot know what happens on success (beyond the player achieving whatever their intent was) is because the GM has not...

But as we’ve seen with the cook and the burning house examples, any number of alternate possibilities can be offered. If the roll was...

Do you not understand that asking @pemerton what would have happened on a success in his example is not a comparison of two games? It is...

This claim is refuted by the existence of RM, RQ and even Burning Wheel. As per what I posted upthread, the 5e D&D 2014 surprise rules...

An INUS condition is not a sufficient condition. It is an insufficient but necessary component of an unnecessary but sufficient...

I have “liked” this post as a team-building exercise.

Yes, this is one reason for adopting closed-scene resolution. Or for adopting the AW approach where "nothing happens" is not an outcome...

I'm interested how you determine how many checks you need for this more granular style - we all know that the more checks are made, the...

I'd add to this - if the probabilities are adjusted so that the overall outcome is not punishing, then each individual roll becomes...

Unfortunately, in practice, what this means is that the PC's will nearly always fail. Because the DM simply piles on check after check...

No, not until now: What if the guessing represents the "fog of war"? Some versions of D&D uses blind declaration (eg spell casting in...

Can you provide an example of a RPG that doesn't satisfy your principles? I can't think of one. I think that the intention of the...

No one disagrees with this, as best I'm reading the conversation. The cook is in the kitchen because of <insert in-fiction causal...

It's by design though right. Rolling for intent in the BW style destroys puzzle solving. Conflict resolution in say Sorcerer, can...