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Less fiction, more clarity! 😉 Hmmm, it's hard to analyze that in a general sense, but say looking at a version of the lock picking...

I choose not to argue with @pemerton about his example. I can see the argument against the things he mentioned there being fail forward...

A desire to understand the greater world around us? Knowledge for its own sake? I mean, I know all 50 US state capitals despite the...

This has nothing particular to do with the game or its rules but with fiction. Essentially Harper's arguing for an equivalent of...

I look at it this way. Saying "this technique works if you use Assumption A. This same technique fails if you Assumption B." is...

DW has Discern Realities, which surely any competent player is likely to trigger. They're going to ask at least one question, and it's...

It is illustrating fail forward. Failed attempt at kidnap => word on the street of a knife-wielding assailant. Failed Sing to try and...

I don't know, you tell me? The games that I play have momentum, events in motion, trajectories of threat and promise. I've posted many...

Are you an expert on satellite imaging? Or do you rely on authorities to assure you that Google street view is an accurate representation?

This is a good description of the difference. I want to feel like things I don't know matter and have weight, because it amplifies the...

But this of course simply kicks the bias up to a higher plane of abstraction: assigning the odds. Which is already a significant domain...

When talking about fiction-first games the fiction refers to the shared/established fictional situation the table has agreed upon. It...

There's probably a discussion to be had about that, sure, but the scenario I described above? Makes sense in a kind of comedic...

This is a soft move in AW/DW parlance, Describe Future Badness (IIRC). There are a bunch of things that could be going on. First, the...

I've already posted examples in reply to you, twice. Here's a third go: