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One problem with our examples is they tend to stop time, and here one needs to extend the example in time to see that "nothing happens"...

See next comment Then everyone agrees! It is just you sort of making a fool of yourself thinking the rest of us are talking about the...

Alerted by what? It's unlikely that the cook could hear the lockpick attempt from somewhere else in the house. I did not say it...

This is exactly what I mean when I say the conflation of "simulationism" and "accurately simulating reality" muddies things. I think it...

Sure they have - they've simulated the feeling-out process where combatants size each other up and see what the other is made of, and...

Exactly - the presence/absence of a cook is unrelated to the success/fail of the door being opened. I would. Absent other pre-narrated...

Correct. I don't really see any value in it for my play, and thousands of posts here about it haven't changed my mind.

How do you see it as changing the shared fiction? There are specific hours when both skilled and unskilled thief avoid the cook and...

In fairness, though, there really should be two rolls here (though by design there's only one) - one to determine the success of the...

I'm not asking for you to nitpick the example. I notice you are doing that rather than answering the question. I know no one runs things...

It's really getting tiresome to see this example mangled the same way. I looked at these in more detail before-- But it seems rather...

The problem is that there is no "burglary" action in D&D. There's sleight of hand to pick the lock, stealth to avoid notice, perception...

I didn't realize I was making a burglary check. Who's moving the goalposts now?

You stated that "competent people make their own luck". Competent people are better at the tasks they are performing, which is true...

Whether or not something is a simulation is not based on the simulation's accuracy.