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I assume it's because 4e has basically two settings for skills: skilled or unskilled. There are further adjustments: class abilities...

He did say on a curve you'd need to swap from dice to a computer to apply a faux 15% disparity that STAYS at 15%. So, it wouldn't land...

I am gonna back this statement up here. I think @Blue is correct. When I GM, and I am being treated like "the chef" I am not having...

So many Play-to-find-out RPGs, such as all of the various PbtA and FitD ones, show that this is incorrect.

Well in that case, this claim is false: Because there are RPGs in which the actual maths of discrete skills is noticeable and is...

I didn't realise that you were talking only about 5e D&D. Your post (and the thread more generally) didn't make that clear.

Combat can be resolved via "typical narration-based gameplay" the same as any other activity. And then it will be as real-time as any...

I think that in systems where roll is dice pool based (Burning Wheel and its cousins, BitD and its cousins, Prince Valiant, etc) people...

I know some use saving throws in B/X and BECMI D&D as resolution mechanics. For example, if you try something dexterous or agile, you...

They can also be seen as building on thief abilities, secret door detection, rangers' tracking ability, etc.

Yeah, I’ve very much arrived at this stage of thinking. I just am not interested in worrying about “meta” elements in the same way many...

These seem to be pretty similar ideas. A world where events occur with the regularity of a metronome is just as "meta" as the OotS...

I mean some sort of game-regulated countdown or measure that leads to consequences. Eg each action takes a turn, and a torch burns for 4...

Well no, time is linear. The only verisimilitudinous explanation is that the relevant knowledge spontaneously appears in the character's...

If there's no clock that the players can work against and/or try to control then, in my view, the consequence seems to be just prompting...