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Its still out there, just like the TSR editions.

In your game there probably isn't one, so that makes sense.

Do you think WotC had to in this case? If so, why haven't they done so with all their previous PHs?

There's that 100% realism strawman! Haven't seen him in a while. Consideration does not equal action.

You'd likely get to make a save if you roll that 1 to catch yourself, maybe for less damage, but yes, the change to fall and potentially die, however small, is there, provided the fall is from a fatal height.

You asked me why they would respond to your post. I speculated.

In the games you play, they do. In the games I play they (by and large) do not. Both games are fine choices, but they are quite different in many ways.

Yes, but the rules don't have to explicitly encourage it. That's a design choice.

I received a response that took me seriously, and I meant it seriously, so I'm going with "yes".

None of which really appeal to me. Does the fact that it influenced the creation of other games mean I have to follow its lead on RPG discussion and terms?

So what? I consider myself a fairly traditionally-minded GM, but I don't play or own D&D 5.5 and disagree with its stated design philosophies.

Are you saying the quantum cook wouldn't happen? It's right there in the example.

Maybe they thought of that as a Pemerton phrase, not a Forge phrase.

Not the way I play. I guess I have different "purposes of the game" than you do. For me "does it happen?" is always worth considering.

If I tried to use them, they definitely would be. In every Narrativist I've ever played in, they were used in an inartful way, playing up the parts of those mechanic I dislike.

You could fail to climb it. You could conceivably injure yourself (I've certainly done that trying to climb a wall). It is inherently an at least moderately dangerous activity. There's a reason right there. The stakes don't have to be unconnected to physically climbing the wall, and they don't...

Because the roll is about trying to climb a wall (presumably using a metric related to climbing), not why you're climbing a wall. That's a separate roll if it's a roll at all. If you make a roll to see if you successfully make a sword in your forge, what would your reason for making that sword...

You act as if no one's ever fallen off a cliff to their death before. Why should that never happen?

Whether of not they successfully climbed the wall.

It may also provide a fun opportunity for roleplay.