The Dice are Not Your Friend
The dice only exist to give players a chance to fail at something. The dice do not allow you to do things, you do that yourself when you declare your action. Rolling dice only gives a chance of hindering the players, not helping.
D&D is at its core, a dice game in which you declare your action and then roll dice to see if you fail. If you don’t, then you continue onward to gain power and glory.
Author’s emphasis. Alas, that blog is gone, and the Internet Archive does not have a copy of it.
