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You can put the cook there on success or failure, but the example specifically did not.

It doesn't really matter what Edwards calls it. A simulation simulates something real in some manner. It may not be all that accurate...

This is incorrect. Hit points simulate durability in combat. Let's say that I am in a fist fight with someone. I might throw a...

Then why does one lose hit points through discrete effects? And why do those effects cause differing amounts of damage/hit point loss...

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...

I'm really looking forward to @hawkeyefan 's response to this. We could end the whole thread with this.

It doesn't count unless it actually made it into the movie.

Respectfully, there have been maybe a dozen comments clarifying that the issue is not the cook's presence in the kitchen in the abstract...

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...

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"...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...