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These sound like some quantum crumbling rocks to me!

I don’t know if that’s true. Most rolls in the games I’m thinking of are made by a player and are about their character affecting the...

Huh? There was a whole sub-culture of complaint about 4e D&D - spearheaded by The Alexandrian - based on the fact that many 4e mechanics...

Who is being petitioned? I mean, do you describe moving your piece in a chess game, or playing your card in a card game, using this...

What RPG, or whose RPGing, are you trying to describe here? I mean, the overall tenor of your posts suggests you think that you are...

This honestly doesn’t sound like any kind of random encounter roll I’ve ever heard of. I’ve never seen a breakdown of the timing...

“Inappropriately”? The player action is rolling dice. Do players not typically roll dice to affect the fictional world? A player got...

Sick burn, Max. I’m not gonna lie… that stings. This is my point. @AlViking said that a Burglary skill wouldn’t work for him because...

Well, no. Players don’t have the ability to change the fiction beyond what their characters may be able to do to change things in their...

ROTFLMAO. Weapons and armor are simulated? In what way? How? Exactly how are weapons and armor simulated in D&D? Worlds are not...

The degree of detail GMs describe can, however, vary considerably. I wouldn't be in the least surprised to hear a GM say "The cliff...

Really? 1 in 6 chance is "fixed" world? How? The presence of the guard is totally arbitrary. It's a 16 percent chance. Doesn't...

This is not true. The player described an action performed by their character: deciphering the runes, hoping that they would show a way...

What does "win" mean, here? I mean, I know what winning in AD&D looks like. What does winning look like in Burning Wheel? Or Apocalypse...

But, again, it's not even "fixed world". Not as soon as you use random encounters. Or you add details like "crumbling rocks" causing...