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Huh? Competence is all about what a person says and does. You seem to think that an amateur burglar is just as likely to blunder into a...
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I'm really looking forward to @hawkeyefan 's response to this. We could end the whole thread with this.
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It doesn't count unless it actually made it into the movie.
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Respectfully, there have been maybe a dozen comments clarifying that the issue is not the cook's presence in the kitchen in the abstract...
Jun 23, 2025
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Bad things that has nothing to do with the lack of skill is a bit weird. Like the extremely unskilled cook somehow getting struck by...
Jun 23, 2025
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It's because said independence is a goal of play, not specifically because it came from the GM. You're trying to inject an "Us vs. Them"...
Jun 23, 2025
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There's no insistence that these things can't be connected...people have repeatedly stated they are ok with it when the noise alerts an...
Jun 23, 2025
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I still really do not get what you are trying to say. Map and key task resolution also works very well on larger scales. Hex crawl is...
Jun 23, 2025
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What I was trying to say is that the play techniques and play loops we commonly associate with D&D and similar games do an excellent job...
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I think you agree that this problem is of a much less severity than the appearing cook though? After all I guess you agree it is not...
Jun 23, 2025
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How there was a complication determined matters (this is the heart of sim play). We aren’t opposed to the general notion of cooks being...
Jun 23, 2025
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Again there is no serious problem if the lockpicking merely drew attention. The problem arises if there on the success was no cook there...
Jun 23, 2025
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I realize I wasn't who it was directed at, but I can't say I'd feel any difference when the probabilities and approach were otherwise...
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Right, but it's not about the maths, it's the perception. On an intellectual level, I know it's illogical, but roll under feels...
Jun 23, 2025
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That blog post was quite empathicaly argued against in this though: Broken RPG Theory: The "Six Cultures...
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