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Yeah. The one I posted was of either my wife or son, can't remember which and both would do something like that, making me wear one of my wife's icepacks on my head. Laughing at that one would be par for the course. :P

I once received a letter that said that they were a secret organization of psychics who identified me as someone with the potential for psychic power. The level of my power is represented by the playing card they mailed to me, and spades is the most powerful suit. Of course they sent me an ace...

I just don't get it. You'd think that someone who learned enough to get into a college, and learned enough to earn a degree, and then learned enough to pass law school, then get a job to practice law, would have learned that AI can't be trusted to get fingers and toes right, let alone a...

In every game, including yours, the fiction includes a lot of stuff that never makes it to the table. There's no way we can do, see or narrate everything that would be going on in the fiction, so we each focus on the parts we enjoy the most. I'm confident that my game is really interesting to...

We do see it. Every time the wizard casts a spell in or out of combat, including times where he tries to get creative with the use of one of his spells, that's practice, experimentation and training, etc. In the fiction at level up it's something like, "Hmm. You know, if I take the ranged...

Elevated appreciation and understanding of what? I can have an elevated appreciation and understanding of gamist play, narrativist play, or simulationist play. If it's just "elevated appreciation and understanding," it's gobbledygook. People enjoy sim play, because they want a greater sense...

They way it seems to me, is if it's not really a valid move to deny the players idea if he makes successful roll, what the roll does is determine who is authoring the runes. If the roll is successful, the runes say what the player wanted them to say. The DM doesn't really author the runes...

I'm not really concerned with that. I trust the DM to have the integrity not to fall prey to that temptation(if it's even a temptation). I'm certainly not going to assume the DM does it. I don't know what you are trying to say here. What happens to affect what timeline? And why is it...

For me the mechanics should change. The fluff is what is already put out as known, so the mechanics matching the fluff is the least disruptive change. Take the following example. The fluff of the medusa is that her gaze turns people to stone. If the mechanic said people turned into...

Why would we do something that we don't want to do? What I mean is what I just said above. We don't want it to be the way you are describing, so why would we do it? All the other worries don't really apply, since we aren't going to do it that way.

No man. It has been said time and time again in this thread that fail forward moves the story forward, but the specific task can be moved sideways or even backwards. It doesn't have to be a success or movement towards that specific goal.

Would it have been a valid DM decision in light of the hope and positive result, for the DM to decide that the hope was not realized?

It started with being unconnected/distantly connected man. That's not a change.

Except that it's not. No it doesn't. Control over everything else doesn't force specific timing. It just doesn't. Your math works for math, but not for the overwhelming majority of RPG situations which.............................aren't math. DM integrity matters. Just because it can be...

I've done similar things. If the outcome isn't in doubt and the PC will succeed without a roll, but time is an issue, rolling to determine how quickly it goes makes a lot of sense. We know the PC will succeed, because the outcome is in doubt, but we do not know how quickly the PC will succeed.

I personally loathe mechanical disconnects. If I note it on my sheet and the DM factors that in, but mechanically my PC is still an expert swimmer, it bugs the crap out of me every time I see it. Mechanics and fluff should match.

(y) I try to run my games that way. There may be times where I mess that up, but I try to give as many details as I can about the environment so that the players can figure out if things are safe to climb or not, if it's scary and something might be inside or not.

You might be reading more into that than is there. I think(and I could be wrong) that he's saying that a DM who changes the fiction on the fly, like narrating a smooth cliff and then changing it to a rough and crumbly cliff if the climb fails, or just hiding the crumbly details from the players...

Sure, and those are the minority of complications. Skill does play a part in those, but most of the time complications crop up independently. Minor ones are quickly fixed by someone with skill, but they are still complications.

You don't get to make it irrelevant, though. To a lot of us it's very relevant. You can that you don't find it relevant, but that's really as far as you can go. No. When and how often can be randomly determined. It doesn't have to be under the DM's control.