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Yes. It changes the feel of the game a great deal. That's neither good, nor bad, but it is very different. Some folks enjoy one way...

That is wrong. In one case you have a player declaring that they'd like their character to find herbs. In the other you have a player...

I don't really care how The Forge would define anything.

Retcon =/= do in the moment. They will never be close to the same, no matter how often you repeat that they are not really that different.

Do you see why this would bother people who think making decisions about how to spend time while traveling is an important part of the...

It is setting oriented play. The PCs are not playing second fiddle. I made the roads but they're in the driver's seat and choose which...

When these coincidences happen every time I fail a roll, they're no longer coincidences.

I have been giving some thought to how Blades would have worked for me if we had only called for a roll if we felt there were plausible...

Just because some RPGs do it that way doesn't make it any more sensible. Rolling the dice when one outcome is interesting while the...

Things like that happen; but also sometimes people do legitimately forget things. To reflect that, in relatively trivial cases like...

Most of the time I prefer they declare they'll be herb-hunting before they start the trip; if nothing else, herb-hunting slows travel...

No. I'm assuming I call for a roll when I think it's necessary. I grew up on Rolemaster, and the nature of open ended rolls resulted in...

I have played in a fashion where rolls tend to be extremely rare since the 80s or 90s. If there is no combat, it would not be unusual...

It's plainly evident that, for many of you, it is not implausible. I have stated that I understand this again, and again, and again. As...

People (including me) have told you that they aren't interested in deeply analysing certain aspects of play, or semantics, or whatever...