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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8486951" data-attributes="member: 82106">TBH? I wouldn't describe the warehouse in that much detail BEFORE the challenge was entered into. The players would participate in a Skill Challenge (this can be straightforwardly adapted to 5e modulo you would pick DCs a bit differently than in 4e). First we define the consequences of failure, as well as possible consequences of tallying individual check failures for 1 and 2 fails. We would then elucidate what the goal is, in order to establish the basic consequences of victory. Now fiction will begin to happen. The PCs show up at the warehouse (or maybe this part happens earlier/on a different day, etc.) and start casing the joint. Do they find some means of ingress? Checks can be made for that! OK, there's a drain pipe and a cupola, and the one guard on duty at night seems fairly inattentive, and there are often things located near the main entrance which could conceal a PC, but the side door is barred tight!Going on from there, maybe the side door was the best gambit, and one of the PCs tried to find a way to sneak in and hide so they could unbar it later, but they failed! OK, so we now know that the other options are less good, second choices that we are left with as a consequence of the first failure. Maybe, as that failure was played out, the player foolishly acted in a way that really got the guards suspicious, next night there are 2 alert guards on the front door! OK, so its going to be the drainpipe...Well, going up the drainpipe works, but the noise makes the guards even more suspicious. They don't spot you, but now they're checking the interior and the PCs have to wait a while until they tire of it. They're still pretty suspicious though, so now the rest of the op is 'lights out' and any noise is going to be a critical issue, we're down to one failure left. Well, eventually the characters succeed, but there was just no way they could get to all of the loot and not be caught, so they end up with a smaller haul, but they did succeed.Obviously there will be more detail in actual play, but we cannot really HYPOTHESIZE that, it has to be played out. That is part of the nature of a Story Game, the fiction ARISES dynamically out of play, it is not usually all nailed down ahead of time (though I illustrated how the same fiction you described COULD arise).</blockquote>

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