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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...

There is in fact a difference. I came up with that town waaaaaaay before that session, so that's when the farrier was there, not during the session the player reminded me that I had forgotten to write it down. The difference is timing. Making it up when the player asks is creating it on the...

It really doesn't matter, since we are treating both sides as "quantum." It's not as if we are just aiming the term at your playstyle. Then that just adds a third different way to do it. DM in advance----->DM in the moment----->Player in the moment. For me it gets less desirable the farther...

I answered it several time. Quantum for the DM before the players encounter it =/= quantum for the players hitting a random encounter because someone failed a knowledge engineering check. Those are two different things. Not by D&D RAW there's not. Both use the same tools in the same amount...

That's probably because they aren't the same. How many times do we have to say that there's a difference between the DM rolling in advance and the player rolling to determine things in the moment? That there's a difference between PC skill influencing the roll and a roll happening without PC...

Depends on what you mean by "don't approve of." We have been using it ONLY to mean that it doesn't work in our games. Unless that's what you mean, then "don't approve of" doesn't apply. We have expressed no such disapproval for it being used in other peoples' games.

That's never an optimization problem. There are so many ways to go, that if a player is picking up things to step on someone else's niche, that's a player being a jerk problem, not an optimization problem.

They really don't matter much at all. Most games never get to 10th level, so the vast majority of players never see fighters reach 3 or more attacks. For low levels, the difference between that 14 and that 18 is +2. Out of every 20 swings on average, that PC will hit 2 more times. A typical...

No, because if they really meant that, they would take the incredibly easy step of you know, not using the disparaging term in the first place. I don't remember anyone saying quantum was disparaging. I do recall @AbdulAlhazred trying to say we meant something we didn't, but I don't remember him...

That's an interesting video.

I don't require anyone to change. I'm just pointing out that if they use disparaging comment, their "support" of the style is suspect, and that if people here on the forum use those terms, they are self-sabotaging their own posts/threads. They are using terminology that is pretty much...

No I didn't. I described the resolution process of using an unrelated(no immediate connection) die roll in that moment to determine if a cook was behind the door or somewhere else, rendering her both there and not there until that resolution concluded, as "quantum." It wasn't because I don't...

You take on no roles in hero quest. You do take on roles in a roleplaying game. Even the gamists. Being gamist doesn't equate to treating D&D like Heroquest.