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I mean, this whole "not make the characters' lives boring" is a Red Herring. Even if the characters are bored out of their minds here and there shopping or traveling, they still adventure, find loot, become pirates, talk to dragons, walk other planes of existence, and more. Their lives quite...

It takes less than 6 seconds. RAW says you can attempt to open a lock on your turn during combat. Success and it opens. There is no penalty, increased loudness for speed or anything else. It's a normal lockpick attempt in your 6 or less seconds. That means that outside of combat, it also...

Breaking a belief is as much a faithful portrayal of the PC as keeping it is. People are people. We have beliefs. Some of them we keep. Others we keep and then break, sometimes forever and sometimes only briefly. The system you describe is asking for the player to faithfully portray their...

I had this discussion with @pemerton. Stealth isn't what dictates much of anything. Perception is. You literally cannot fail a stealth check, since a 1 does not auto fail and all stealth checks successfully set a DC for perception checks against you. You roll a 2 -1 and you get a total of...

Except that I do have an agenda of not making the characters'(and players') lives boring, which can be done in conjunction with fidelity to the prepared setting.

Being interrupted is not failing to be able to open the lock via the lockpicking skill. It's failing due to being interrupted which is different. If you want to add that into your personal game, that's fine, but it's not part of 5e RAW. If it made sense, I would probably like it. ;) As it...

So what. All you guys are showing is that the structure of the argument is logically sound, not that the argument is sound. DMs don't have an agenda of making things boring for the players.

All of which are incredibly unlikely. So unlikely to happen at the exact time the party gets there in a traditional game, as to not occur unless the DM has remembered the farrier and determined somehow that one of those things happened. You're still thinking like a narrative DM where very...

"If you don't have an agenda as GM that includes making the character lives' not boring you should not use fail forward." This seems like sophistry to me. Who has an agenda that includes making the characters lives boring? No DM that I've ever heard of. It implies that using fail forward is...

Why would I do that? I'm not running a narrative game. I'm not going to start inventing plots and such on the spot just because someone asked for the farrier. It wouldn't make sense for their to be no farrier. If there was some reason for the farrier to be absent, then I wouldn't have...

Maybe. There's no reason to assume that there are more servants involved with this. In a castle, sure, there are lots of servants and the cooks(plural) wouldn't be involved in serving most of the time. In a private residence, the cook is probably also the server.

Right. The DM would have to homebrew in one being louder than the other. It's not RAW that it is. If you feel the need to make a failed attempt louder for some reason(and I see no reason why it should be), then you can do so. It matters if you want the world to feel like it exists...

Holy failed assumptions Batman! Just because we don't use fail forward, does not mean that we want the PCs' lives to be boring. Those two things don't line up.

A player dictating how something outside of his character works for the world is authoring, yes. Whether you play that way or not doesn't change that. And I'm not saying it's bad. It's not "just play," though. Something that's "just play" would be generally true across RPGs and playstyles...

So the cook(not maid) would be up at 2:30am for some reason, but wouldn't be around to serve and prepare breakfast, lunch or dinner because they shouldn't be seen? 🤔

How dare you leave me out! ~ Captain Cook.

When it comes to wandering monsters the question is, is the monster going to go through that spot at that time, yes or no? We don't know yet. If the roll comes up yes, then that monster will be wandering past that spot at that time whether the players show up there or not. If the roll comes...

The player is not authoring it through the character, though. The player is authoring it outside of the game and then afterwards expressing it through the character. It's the player, not the character that is directly authoring new content for the world. Authoring new content through a...