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Assuming it is just an ‘intricate countdown clock’, does being that preclude it from simulating something?

5e surprise is determined purely fictionally???

Fair enough. I assumed more nuance to you position than exists. That wasn’t on my bingo card. So what would you call a style where the GM creates the fictional world but doesn’t guide the fiction? Half GM driven?

The fireball can have save for half because it’s not calling that a miss. I’m not opposed to adding glancing blows that deal some damage in. I’m opposed to calling such things misses. On the same token I would call a glancing blow that doesn’t cause any damage a miss. So yea, glancing blow...

Well no. Not hitting the target number on the DC can mean whatever the game says. Calling that a miss when it’s really a glancing blow is the problem here in my estimation. It’s part of my general problem with narrativists ignoring the clear meaning of words and treating them like game terms...

I don’t have a problem with the dm changing dc based on who is doing the action though.

I think most are coupling the interpretative part into this. There is a difference or at least potentially so there. A miss entails something different than you are in the area so will be hit but can potentially maneuver to take less of the hit.

Okay. I’m not ready to commit but let’s explore this. Skill with thieves tools means both skill at picking locks and skill at being silent with them. Then we need some way to differentiate the possible outcomes of pick the lock only but make noise, stay silent while attempting to pick but don’t...

I think it’s also a problem if the failed lockpicking roll draws attention while the success does not. A separate stealth roll should ideally be employed to determine the noise. I’m interested in this part. I’ve been under the impression that all sim play was to some degree about an...

That doesn’t appear to align with your other statement. I think maybe reframe what you mean as your current explanations are leading to confusion and I don’t think it’s just me.

How there was a complication determined matters (this is the heart of sim play). We aren’t opposed to the general notion of cooks being in houses. We aren’t opposed to the general notion of sounds drawing the cooks attention. But if your lockpicking check as opposed to your stealth check causes...

I assumed by roll under you meant roll under your stat or similar. I wouldn’t like that. If it’s just roll under vs roll over and all else the same I don’t care either way.

That framing makes it worse from the d&d sim perspective IMO.

I don’t think that’s nearly nuanced enough.

I’m not a fan.

Because telling people they have a reflexive defense isn’t one of the most offensive things you can do…

Then take mine as challenging the arbitrariness of your comparative class.

Unless the complication is dependent on time or something the experts expertness might impact related to the complication. But otherwise yes.

Yea. There’s alot of nuance here and we are just scratching the surface. And it’s also different for each person. But we aren’t trying to generate a fully unified theory that all sim oriented people are the same so everyone having some differences is okay. We are trying to talk mostly in...

As far as I could tell your statement didn’t include any comparison class.