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No. The GM decides if the cook is there, or not, based on whether the rules tell us that the burglar's attempt to break in went well or...

I don’t know. I’ve accurately described both. There are those of us who don’t require that every game we play work a specific way...

Yet I talk about Classic Traveller quite a bit, which (as I play it, and I think on the strength of the rules text) plays more like...

The line of discussion came out of an example of @pemerton provided of his Burning Wheel game in a response to a point unrelated to fail...

So if the GM doesn't narrate shadows, or ambient noise, or whatever, does that mean that no roll can be made for the Orcs to be...

I'm getting a bit fed up with the implication that I'm lying about a game that I know pretty well. But I've quoted some of the text just...

This is becoming rather surreal. I've quoted the rules - from Hub and Spokes, which can be downloaded for free from DTRPG...

Didn't someone already post this upthread?

I was quoting from a rulebook. It has text that sets out its rules. But anyway, here's an example of announcing future badness: You see...

I haven't said that Circles is compatible with any "sim" agenda. I don't even know what your "sim" agenda is. So at one and the same...

Why not? You don't think that someone who is cool under pressure is more likely to be able to judge the right time to enter, based on...

Really? Given that 99% of FRPGing takes place in an utterly amorphous world, as far as history and culture and society go, I'm not...

But for the player's action declaration - "I enter the hex" - the GM would not make anything up. Is that so? I'm not familiar with this...

My own view is that part of being a skilled burglar is making your own luck - that is, having a knack (by way of observation...

Oh, come on. The ONLY reason the grass suddenly becomes long is because of the ambush, not the other way around. The DM wouldn't have...