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What makes this different from the DM rolling on a random encounter table? This seems even more related than the previous examples, because now it's (quite literally) a direct connection. Failing to pick a lock nearly guarantees that you've spent a lot of time trying. You don't spend two seconds...

Moreover, in households from medieval times all the way up through the Victorian era, servants were never supposed to be seen by residents in most cases, unless they were direct personal servants. Messes were, in effect, supposed to seem like they magically cleaned themselves, with entire...

Then why does the dragon only exist there because the roll """failed"""? (I know it's not a "failure" because that's not how we classify the results from random-monster rolls, but for most parties, running into a red dragon on a random-monster roll would be at least as bad, if not MUCH worse...

I mean, I still don't get it, I just decided not to bother responding because it wasn't going anywhere. I don't understand why it's acceptable for the GM to engage in "quantum" anything. That, if anything, is worse "quantum" to me, because it's "quantum" pretending to not be. It is, inherently...

If relevant, I ask them what is inspiring this decision. Sometimes, it's not having the spoons anymore. Sometimes, it's a matter of needing to keep their schedule open (I won't say specifically why, that's personal). Sometimes, it's "I'm glad I joined, but this isn't for me." And sometimes, it's...

In light of the recent challenges over condescending tone and style, this particular action is...frankly galling.

Well, for instance, the rather scornful rejection of anything that doesn't work the way the speaker accepts (e.g. dismissing cited evidence that the claim that the most immediate cause is often not how real people talk about causation); the numerous times people (including yourself) have...

Since you didn't ask for one from Max, no, I will not provide one. The burden of proof belongs to those who levy the original accusation. Not gonna lie, it's pretty characteristic of this thread to demand proof from the second accusation, from the "opposite team", without asking for any such...

I mean, there's a very simple answer to deal with your obvious slippery-slope fallacy (beyond, y'know, calling it out as a fallacious argument). "Half-elves and half-orcs were already possible in Solasta 1, so they aren't being cosmically deleted in Solasta 2. Other options from 5.0 MIGHT be...

I've noticed a distinct sense of superiority about "traditional GM" play, about "simulation", about a bunch of things in this thread. Stones, glass houses, etc.

You can call it a false equivalency all you like, that doesn't make it so. You have to actually show why it's a false equivalency if you want the argument to stick. You've specifically argued against any possibility of proximate causes, treating them as some whackadoodle nonsense that could...

Am quite tired, but I'll check out that link later. Always cool to see new tech. Though many have promised "unpickable" locks and....been found wanting, shall we say. Why need that always be the case? Sincerely. I'm dead certain you will have some rolls, some of the time, where you invoke...

Doing that action is quite literally choosing pacing over realism. Like that's the exact thing you're doing. "We know you'll succeed, forcing you to roll would be dull and boring, we're just going to skip past it and move on." That thing IS pacing!

We're trying to square a circle with compass and straightedge. On the one hand, in the old way, going back to 3e, since that's when à la carte multiclassing became a thing and still somewhat present in 5.0, we have the problem of frontloading, in two directions. First and more important...

Though I don't run 5e myself, I know the rules well enough to comment, and my GM philosophy doesn't change between this and the game I do run (Dungeon World). As a general rule, I try to be favorable to players when I can, though I also let them know that if they convince me something is...

Well, you'll want to talk to @Lanefan about that, as he's rejected both the idea that failure needs to have any meaning, and the idea that success needs to have any meaning (I presume separately, as if both are true simultaneously I'm pretty sure even he would say "don't bother", but I could be...

I guess I don't understand how this counts as, in your words, "taking partial control over the narrative"... ...when the whole time it's been extremely clear to me that the "traditional GM" ALWAYS has near-complete control over the narrative. They're just under an extremely weak, unstated...

Then maybe not every lockpicking needs to be the result of a roll?

Well, all "jobs" in FFXIV inherently manipulate aether, which means they're all, in some sense, "magic". The difference is that a "Disciple of Magic" (read: caster) is someone legitimately "casting spells", e.g., flinging around fireballs, calling down space-dragon lasers, or bringing magic...

Well, at least with mage armor, because you can swap out one Sorcerer spell each time you level up, you can replace it with something more useful once you hit level 3--which is quite reasonable, since that also gets you 2nd level spells. But your remaining points are quite valid. Personally...