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This has always just looked like incomplete design to me. Surely you could just list the time it takes to perform the action and what...

In Shadowdark iirc the monsters all have darkvision, so the light doesn't help them see anything. They avoid it as a threat. In the...

Let's walk through the screaming cook scenario as I see it. The character's goal is to break into the estate to get a map. I'm assuming...

Fair enough. But man I struggle with the term color as it's been used in this thread. The NPC is there or they aren't, and that matters...

In the lock picking, fail forward case: success means you get in, no cook. Fail means you get in, cook. What you're describing changes...

That's a fair way to run things but it's not at all what the examples were about.

Sure, we can restrict it to "independent vs dependent". When you try to make less noise or lack care with light, you're doing something...

They should be encountered in the fiction. Then a skilled thief can use their stealth and misdirection to avoid them. "You're level 4...

I'm just going to redirect you to my previous posts as I feel they answered all of these objections. Virtuous DMing balances...

Because they avoid them skillfully, yes. Because there just happen to be no wanderers there? No.

Yes And no. This is explicitly more quantum than the other. In the wandering monster case, the events are independent--your skill at...

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...