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This thread is in the general forum and is not about your specific preference for adjudication only. To answer your question, though...

If the players ask a bunch of questions, I haven't done a great job at describing the scene as DM. Sure, communication being imperfect...

Your position is that D&D is conflict resolution, and anyone trying to play it under a task resolution lens is doing it wrong?

The task is throwing a rock at a tree. The uncertainty is whether the PC will hit the tree. That's what the dice roll resolved.

I self-published a game many years ago, and a supplement for it, and I am working vaguely on something else in my spare time. Even if my...

No, I just meant for hobbyists who want to share their work, they can do so very easily, as opposed to "back in the day." Part of the...

I do not see how you can get this from what you are responding to. It appears to me as a statement that some creators work in a niche...

I'm not sure why we would judge a golden age of RPGs by reference to the commercial success of a few RPG companies. Nor by, say, the...

I haven't read 5.24, but what you describe above is not reflected in the game text of any edition of D&D I'm familiar with, including...

It made the sound the player wanted. Success!

I can see the point in regulating safety issues and truly objectionable decorations (e.g. swastikas). But you seem to be...

'I want to vote for the Leapords Eating People's Faces Party, but Mr GM, just so we're clear, I'm assuming we agree that no Leapords...

Exactly. The player can make the same action declaration in either case. The question is what the rules resolve. Do the rules resolve...

Sure! That's why I said in task resolution (effect) it's acceptable* but in conflict resolution (intent) it isn't. *still not great

No, I successfully intimidated the guard. It just didn't have the outcome I wanted.