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And the game you actually play doesn't use "fail forward" resolution. So all is good!

It changes the way the shared fiction is established. Is that what you mean by "mattering"? Then it seems like the GM has decided that...

What is the "easy break down" actually going to look like? A dungeon map-and-key creates a framework for the triggering/activating of...

If the GM has decided that the cook is not there, then presumably they will not narrate that they are there. If the GM has decided...

100% this!

I have no idea what this has to do with anything. The original example was… as has been pointed out many times… flawed. The...

Well of course if you assume that the check is to be framed in terms that don't suit "fail forward" resolution, then "fail forward"...

Huh? DnD Beyond doesn't agree with this: https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/basic-rules-2014/combat#Surprise The DM determines who...

My understanding of the situation, as described, was that the check was to pick the lock so as to successfully gain ingress. If you want...

@thefutilist and I and @hawkeyefan all discussed this upthread. A cook is implicit in a kitchen, in the same way that soldiers are...

Is it? So when you roll to see if the PCs are surprised by a gelatinous cube, you first work out where the treasure floating in the...

What are you simulating? Nothing that I can see. I mean, if people were made of bricks, and each hp was a brick, and you were gradually...

Quantum ridge! Quantum wind! (On top of the regularly-scheduled quantum wolf.) @Maxperson, @AlViking: notice how the ridge is...

All the comments I keep seeing are about the cook’s presence in the kitchen. That she’s “be there either way” and the like. Her...

I don't think I am refusing to suspend disbelief just because the setting is being first imagined while we play a zero myth game like...