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You still have normal one-off skill rolls. Skill challenges don't become mandatory. You just described the TSR editions. You can do...

A man kicks a ball. The ball doesn't move. A hat appears and turns into a pigeon. I have broken the laws of causality!

This is absolutely not true. 'The fiction' is our shared idea of what is happening. It isn't real. It can't 'evolve causally'. What can...

I'm thinking of the very many map-and-key based modules/scenarios that I have read and played, mostly published by TSR but some...

That wasn't clear to me. Particularly because you seem to be making claims about fictional weight/heft. Eg: I don't really know that the...

There can be all sorts of reasons that received opinion departs from how things actually work. If that were the case in discussions of...

A skill challenge is one way of establishing latent scenes/situations, and then activating/triggering them, and progressing from one to...

How is it pedantic to point out that what you said about the OP is incorrect? The thread isn't about classifying anyone's play. It's...

The impact of a given success on a future action in a skill challenge is not confined to a +2. Obviously it can radically change the...

Not really. It doesn't say anything about how latent scenes/situations are established, nor how the progression of scenes/situations is...

In this example: Wasn't the fiction "moulded" to follow the mechanics? I mean, it seems rife but. Didn't the amazing success with the...

Here is the OP's first line: It says nothing about most play. Nor does it say anything about most anything. It says something about a...

No one is obliging you to participate in this thread!

Right - I had an example from another thread about this Let's say we're playing 5e and the rule is that characters can move stealthily...

The guard patrol changes shift, make another stealth roll. The ground here is more gravelly, make another stealth roll. You're near the...