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Sure, but to complete the analogy. The Spanish chefs then follow with, "And we also don't like American grilled cheese because of the anchovies in it." Both sides are claiming understanding the other side's style while misstating the style that they claim to understand.

Yes. He makes up what was there all along that existed independently of the PCs. Nothing is made up FOR THE PCs. The cook is both there and not there based on the skill of the person opening the lock combined with the result of the roll. In this case there is 1) no situation where the monster...

Several years ago my mother and a bunch of her girlfriends(about 10 in total) went on a women's retreat to a ranch in Central California that one of them owned. Towards the end of the retreat, they took a group photo along the ranch fence along one of the local roads. It wasn't until the...

This is pretty wrong. If the DM failed to note than the grass on the plains the party entered was very tall when they initially entered, that's a pretty big DM blunder. That sort of detail is narrated all the time. And yes, if the height of the grass changes that significantly, I narrate it...

There is no pretense. Rolling specifically for a random encounter is very different than having an encounter because you decided to take a bite out of a poisoned orange and rolled a saving throw. One is connected directly to having the encounter, and the other is ridiculous, since a con save...

I missed this earlier. As the person who came up with the high grass, I specifically mentioned it as being narrated prior to the encounter. When a surprise encounter happens, DMs typically resolve the surprise within the bounds of what has already been narrated. Sneaking up through the high...

For like the umpteenth time, there is no teleportation or quantum involved with wandering monsters. None. These are all monsters that live in the habitat they are encountered in and the party is traveling through.

What makes you think the two situations are the same? The only way they could be the same is if the cook was a wandering monster and would or would not be in the kitchen regardless of the pick lock roll.

I mean, it's at 677 pages already. ;)

Then take your pick of already narrated features that would work. Nothing has to retroactively happen.

Have you met this group? :P

Disposition is far from the only consideration and those other factors mean that in identical circumstances, sometimes the person will do it and sometimes not.

It was very rarely better in 3.5 or 5e to use a spell than a skill. You could generally take 10 or 20 and just succeed at the skill check, where the spell used up a valuable spell slot. In 5e where you can pretty much just retry forever and DCs are almost always 20 or less, and casters have...

No. That's wrong. The hex had whatever was there the entire time. The DM just doesn't have the time or energy to detail out the billions of things the world would have, so leaves the vast majority of things to be determined later if needed. That doesn't make it made up for the PCs.

No. For just about every roll someone in the group will have a high stat + proficiency(often expertise) which gives them greater than 60% and all it takes is one most of the time for a party success.

Sure it does. The roll just indicates a monster is going to wander by. The facts about what the PCs are doing, paying attention to, etc. will all play into the encounter.

How was the dirt they were walking on established? Who planted the grass? What kind of tree is it over there? Did the air being breathed come from land vegetation or plankton? Inquiring minds don't want or need to know. The level of detail you are talking about is rarely necessary, and if it...

Er, they are being stealthy and sneaking up on the party. That's an in fiction reason established prior to the rolling of the dice. You don't roll the dice and then if someone is surprised, the other side must have been stealthy.

What do you mean? Player driven is player driven is player driven. The DM is in the passenger seat reacting to the player decisions. How you regard them is not how they are. There are people who regard the Earth as flat. That doesn't make them right.