• 💡 Your Character Ability scores are secondary to your choices.
• 💡 A good player with an awful character can succeed more often than a poor player with a great character.
• 💡 Ask specific questions while exploring to gather useful information and find Treasure.
• 💡 Talking your way through an obstacle is usually the safest option, use it to gather information and identify weaknesses.
• 💡 Sneaking or bypassing obstacles is a good alternative if talking doesn't work.
• 💡 Combat should be a last resort, consider the risk vs reward before engaging in a fight.
• 💡 Understand the different weapons and their advantages.
• 💡 Wearing armor reduces damage from attackers.
• 💡 Consider alternative approaches and objectives in combat.
• 💡 The core of the game is: Gather information, make choices, and deal with the consequences.

Good discussion on why adv/disadv not in the dice--it's in the impact of the decisions.

Say player wants to climb a steep wall to get to the top.

He can climb by hand. If he fails, he falls to his death.

He can climb using a grappling hook and rope. If he fails, he gets jarred by a brief slip and loses a bit of gear but is able to continue the climb to the top.

The consequences of his approach, the decision he made, impact the outcome, which amounts to gaining and advantage from using the grappling hook.

Mechanics are the same/similar but the consequences might be much better (adv) or worse (disadv) based on how smart or dumb you approach the obstacle. So a fail on a hand climb, you may fall to your death; a fail on a grappling hook climb may be you slip a few feet, jarring your pack and losing an item. Your approach matters, the fiction matters, the consequences of failure should be the difference and reflect how well or poorly you approached the problem.

Distillation Method
Replace multiple rolls with one roll
Replace rolls with interesting decisions
Replace modifiers with dice variation
Replace mechanical effects with diegetic effects