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It's going to get pretty tiresome if you just keep posting 'I don't like this playstyle' again and again.

Obviously. The 'you' includes the players.

Maybe don't use a lot of skill challenges then.

No I have shown that I decided, not 'the fiction' or 'the simulated world'. A man kicks a ball. It's a goal! A man kicks a ball. It...

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

I reject this premise that says SC must be run abc. We certainly do not have that in combat, I do not see why there is this insistence...

The GM isn't expected to quantum cook some new obstacles to keep things going. The SC structure is transparent. It's a pacing tool. If...

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...