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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8441763" data-attributes="member: 6704184">To quote one of the best episodes of The X-Files; Sure. Fine. Whatever. If we’re done picking nits, the point is that succinct is not better than not succinct. Things that don’t advance the plot don’t need to be cut, every scene in a story does not need to matter, Steinbeck is not a better storyteller than Dickens. Efficiency needs to serve a purpose just as much as anything else.&nbsp; &nbsp;With regard to how this relates to the thread topic, the scene at the end of Avengers where they eat shawarma has no impact on literally any other element of the MCU franchise. It has no effect on the plot, it’s just a moment that someone had an idea for, and it felt good to include it. That’s all it needs to be. If the DND campaign equivalent of the similar scene has some element with multiple plausible outcomes that might be the result of how well someone does soemthing, then it’s fine to use dice to resolve that. For some people, it’s preferable to do so. Getting lost in the weeds about what counts as a consequence or as superfluous doesn’t get us any further in an examination of the questions raised by the OP.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8441763, member: 6704184"] To quote one of the best episodes of The X-Files; Sure. Fine. Whatever. If we’re done picking nits, the point is that succinct is not better than not succinct. Things that don’t advance the plot don’t need to be cut, every scene in a story does not need to matter, Steinbeck is not a better storyteller than Dickens. Efficiency needs to serve a purpose just as much as anything else. With regard to how this relates to the thread topic, the scene at the end of Avengers where they eat shawarma has no impact on literally any other element of the MCU franchise. It has no effect on the plot, it’s just a moment that someone had an idea for, and it felt good to include it. That’s all it needs to be. If the DND campaign equivalent of the similar scene has some element with multiple plausible outcomes that might be the result of how well someone does soemthing, then it’s fine to use dice to resolve that. For some people, it’s preferable to do so. Getting lost in the weeds about what counts as a consequence or as superfluous doesn’t get us any further in an examination of the questions raised by the OP. [/QUOTE]

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