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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9687267" data-attributes="member: 23751">What? There exists the remote possibility that this is a crazy person tackling me because I'm there and not because I punched out.&nbsp; I am unable to say absolutely that the punch influenced him, because there isn't a 100% chance that it did.Because being connected =/= caused.&nbsp; You are trying to establish cause where there isn't any. Naw. I punch a passing stranger instead.&nbsp; Did I cause their deaths? Nope! The fire did. I have no obligation to risk my life to save them.I treat circumstances the same way 5e treats ability check.&nbsp; I roll if there is doubt as to the outcome.&nbsp; Sometimes there will be an auto yes or auto no.&nbsp; In the case of the cook(or other NPC living there), there's a very, very small chance someone is awake in the middle of the night when the PCs show up, but it's not zero, so a roll would be involved.It didn't.&nbsp; The farrier was always there, because the town would have had one for hundreds of years. I just forgot to add it.&nbsp; The player's request didn't cause the farrier to appear.&nbsp; The only thing it caused was me to consider whether one would have been there or not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 9687267, member: 23751"] What? There exists the remote possibility that this is a crazy person tackling me because I'm there and not because I punched out. I am unable to say absolutely that the punch influenced him, because there isn't a 100% chance that it did. Because being connected =/= caused. You are trying to establish cause where there isn't any. Naw. I punch a passing stranger instead. Did I cause their deaths? Nope! The fire did. I have no obligation to risk my life to save them. I treat circumstances the same way 5e treats ability check. I roll if there is doubt as to the outcome. Sometimes there will be an auto yes or auto no. In the case of the cook(or other NPC living there), there's a very, very small chance someone is awake in the middle of the night when the PCs show up, but it's not zero, so a roll would be involved. It didn't. The farrier was always there, because the town would have had one for hundreds of years. I just forgot to add it. The player's request didn't cause the farrier to appear. The only thing it caused was me to consider whether one would have been there or not. [/QUOTE]

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