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Rangers being more observance reduces their chance of being surprised. It is their greater stealth which increases their chance of...

Huh? No one would describe rolling an attack in D&D as petitioning the creator. It's just applying the action resolution rules...

You're simply out of your depth here I'm afraid. Yes, some sort of technique must exist which lets the table settle on a fictional...

What edition are you talking about? 4e and 5e both have very general skills that easily apply to an approach or intent type method. This...

The worry here seems to be about "easy mode" or "breaking the game". That's not a problem in MHRP/Cortex+ Fantasy Heroic: an Asset has a...

This is a tautology, or close to one: if the GM has promised X then the GM should provide X. I don't think much of the discussion is...

I have never found this. And I play with players who are pretty experienced, and some of whom are pretty hardcore wargamers. The whole...

This claim seems false to me. In a "trad" game in which it is known that something dramatic is happening right now at the top of a...

Convince the GM X will make for a better story isn't how any of this works. In games that utilize intent like Daggerheart, Burning...

So you would never describe a failed climb check as being the result of a handhold crumbling? Because you would never narrate the...

Sure, but there isn't even a Lock Picking skill... it's a subset of Tool Proficiency with Thieves Tools. Was he good at disarming...

No. If you read the account of play, you'll see that they were teleported by a Crypt Thing. Maybe you're not familiar with the Crypt...

See, this is where I assert that you are just confused about how fiction works. The fiction is not being changed. It is being authored...

I refer you to @Maxperson's example of the "quantum crumbling rock" for climbing. It is impossible, when playing D&D in anything even...

Interestingly, many of the skills in 5e do exactly what you're describing in regard to a "burglary skill". I mean, Move Silently and...