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Presumably, the internet is one of the things that thus enables the golden age to come about, by removing barriers that stop people...

Why does it have to be measured?

Can I throw a stone to heal someone? That's possible in a CR game.

Games that actually factually have player-determined stakes of rolls, such that they are binding on the participants, also include text...

The player wants to throw a rock. It might or might not hit the tree. Everything else is GM-determined.

If I as a person in the real world throw a stone at a tree, and I hit, I might hope that it distracts the nearby guard, but I cannot...

Your position seems to be that D&D can't be task resolution, because you prefer conflict resolution and you like D&D. The practices...

To be clear, my preference is for conflict resolution ('rolling for intent') over task resolution ('rolling for effect'). When I GM an...

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...