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There is no causality in fiction. There is only the fiction of causality, which - of course - can be anything the author chooses which...

Yes, but for the purposes of the discussion, that's what was being discussed. These posts are like if the discussion was labeled...

Maybe don't use a lot of skill challenges then.

Yeah a lot of the seriousness and complexity of the races got added "after the fact" with 40K. Like even if you take Rogue Trader at...

The guard patrol changes shift, make another stealth roll. The ground here is more gravelly, make another stealth roll. You're near the...

By deciding how many, and what kind of, and the difficulty of, obstacles exist between the PCs and their goal, you become a participant...

Fictional state as assessed by you. That's a decision. The only two resolution methods available are 'the rules say' or 'a participant...

An analogy might be combat. We can use the basic to-hit rules to throw a solitary punch at someone, or fire an arrow at a target. In...

It adds a determinate structure. I don't know, as a player, that the GM is going to be satisfied with 3 checks, or if he might decide to...

No it doesn't? Unless what you really mean here is 'the GM's exclusive discretion over the fiction'. What's the point of any dice rolls...

Yeah. 'I try to impress the zookeeper by telling him some animal facts I learned from my Hunt skill' 'I try to sneak up to the guards...

Other people have done the opposite, which is why I posted it. Well, the Oberoni fallacy is about fixing what's broken. Are you saying...

I have fairly experienced players that I’ve played with for a while. When we had session zero for a sandbox homebrew campaign with a...

I agree with this. Skill challenges and similar mechanics are just a way of applying slightly more structure to regular play in order to...

What I'm saying is that 'Skill Challenge' is not a diegetic construct. Characters do not look around and say "boy, I'm in a skill...