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In a classic dungeon crawl, you might get through the gate with the rusted lock by pushing over a large statute to have it crash into...

Typically if plan A fails in this sort of game, you are driven to using a backup plan to achieve the same result at a greater cost. The...

Many games sidestep this problem by encouraging the GM to just skip rolling on checks where there's no consequence for failure and no...

Some issues I have with that: I'm personally not interested in roleplaying suspicion or confidence; I want the players themselves to...

Somehow missed this. That's still not quite what I'm talking about. In the approach I'm describing checks need to have risk. There...

In Wuthering Heights, you roll on your age ("oldness", as the translation from the French has it): To test his wisdom, one should roll...

But that's exactly what they are! They are a mechanical, formal way of quantifying how your character can interact with the world --...

One factor that's relevant here, I do feel like the been a shift towards a gameplay loop that calls for individual character actions in...

Interesting. I hadn't really thought about this, but I agree.

Maybe check out some of the Gumshoe games? In that system skills are split into ‘investigative skills’ and ‘general skills’...

I mean, I have a lot more sympathy for the argument of “passive noticing skills are bad” than “all skills are bad”.

I've been wanting to understand BitD better, so this seems right up my alley. Thanks!

@Bill Zebub Don't take this the wrong way, it's not attack or anything like that. But from this, and posts on other topics, i get the...

3 INT would be a compliment for my chi! Rolling a 3 or 4 isn't - statistically - a big problem. But hey, you could roll one. Just...

The terrain ideas and what everyone has said really helps. Thank you all.