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My point is that D&D is not a very "simulationist" game: it has lots of mechanics that don't take much input from the fiction, and that...

I've never tried to run a RPG where the setting was designed literally independently of the goals of play. I've played classic D&D with...

I thought you play D&D?

I'd push for clarity on what is meant by "illusion" here. To my eye, this is "illusory" only the same sense that the entire enterprise...

The cook is in the house, or perhaps lives in the house and is running an errand, or perhaps works at the house and is running early, or...

Well, it depends. If I’m actually playing a PbtA game like Stonetop… one I’ve recently played a long campaign of… then no, I wouldn’t...

Oh I can accept that because people are saying it… I don’t think anyone is lying. But I also expect that most folks would say that...

I’m still failing to see how successful lock picking would go undetected by potential observers. That would absolutely seem to be part...

Right but some of us are pointing out the inconsistency of attributing the cook’s presence to the roll, and then say that a wandering...

Well I can assure you that it has been discussed in many 5e threads. The last one I remember was the Gloves are Off thread from a couple...

Because the things it says are very similar to some FKR manifestos, and there is also some overlap with "blorb" principles. To me it...

So the wandering monster roll determines the PCs’ location not the monsters? That seems weird. I would think if the roll indicates a...

So the lockpick roll… I’d use one roll to determine the outcome overall. I wouldn’t require a lockpick and then a stealth roll to pick...

There are multiple posters on these boards who advocate "goal and approach" as a thing for resolving 5e D&D action declarations. I have...

This makes Gygax's AD&D non-traditional, then, given that it expressly contemplates retrofitting fiction to explain surprise: