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This may have already been answered - but the way I’ve generally seen it in OSR play is that you pre-roll a set of random table results...

There's some who would think this was a hella cool way for their character to die (and who might also reference Moby Dick). To some...

If the in-fiction characters aren't managing risk and avoiding obstacles when-where they reasonably can, that doesn't say much for their...

Indeed, but ideally they're not quantum: there's an in-fiction reason those wanderers are there and (unless there's a gate or spawner...

Why can't it more consistently be "fail backward", though? When breaking into a kitchen and failing the roll, why can't the narration...

I'm not going to argue with that for any edition; though the targets of criticism will be different in each. :) Thing is, what some...

GM: The party approaches the door and discovers it is locked. Rogue player: My rogue quickly scratches around his satchel for his thief...

Easy. I know the party is going to be traveling through a forest for three days. So I roll random encounters for all three days prior...

Yes, it is a great move in a skilled play game. But I'm understanding of the word "competative play" is having important differences to...

Perhaps, but the play techniques matter a great deal to some of us.

I don't think that's in dispute. However, which principals, priorities and constraints matter a great deal to folks, as this thread...

I don't think so. The people encountering it aren't the ones generating it in the way the person opening the box are determining the...

If it's pre-established it can't be quantum, because its existence isn't predicated on what the PCs do or what the players roll.

I see. The basic premise being that if it's instantiated early enough then you can adequately account for it in relation to the players...

I explained it above to Hussar, but the reason it's not quantum is that I'm going to roll for encounters before the party even camps for...