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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!

I'm not sure all these investigation rolls should be a part of the SC. I'm not sure players should make five barely related checks (at...

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...

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...

'Autotext gave me incorrect medical advice'

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

Fictional state as assessed by you. That's a decision. The only two resolution methods available are 'the rules say' or 'a participant...

There is a point at which the success of the venture has not yet been determined. There is a point at which a further success or...

Don't remember that bit of the bible!

Does this apply to combat? I know that my first attack against the monster is very unlikely to be fatal. Quite likely it would be...

You keep conflating the resolution of the skill rolls with the resolution of the overall conflict. The choice is between 'the GM decides...

Wow, that’s really odd. I mentioned constraints being useful for creativity. The players decided to climb a wall rather than take...

Well, again, if it's a single roll, then don't use a skill challenge. The point of a skill challenge is to incorporate all these back...

I would, but a first-up failure of a stealth check can't then be 'the alarm is raised'. It has to be something like 'the guards heard...