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Yeah, where I see a problem is when things are decided in a way which subverts player's choices. The old 'quantum ogre' which appears...

Decign and principles are hard. If this principle as formulated here the game "Flip a coin whenever you are unsure" would be more...

Oh, no! Someone used an older name for a technique! The HORROR!

No, because PbtA is not a system which requires Fail Forward! It is perfectly OK for a 6- to simply be "you failed, AND <bad thing X>...

Then I am simply jumping off your point. This whole notion of "quantum" encounter is just more smoke and mirrors trying to pretend...

I love tables like the ones in Stonetop that are the start of something appropriate for the region or site in question, but are meant to...

It seems exactly like that kind of case to me? I get the cook wasn't introduced at the same moment the hard move occurs, but making the...

I just didn't find, in practice, that all that much really WAS set out ahead of time, or really could be extrapolated from what was set...

Just so we're all clear: managing risk and avoiding obstacles are not the only dimensions of meaning that are possible in RPGing. In...

Sounds right. Whereas in BW I would expect that the failure would be on the original attempt to pick the lock, and the intent of getting...

I think we can take it that the cook screaming is a hard move. So let's reason back - what player-side move failed, such that the cook...

That's fair. I am much more used to Dungeon World and similar PbtAs where intent is not as explicitly separated from tasks (sometimes...

You can see more of my thoughts in the post just above. "Fail forward" is primarily the idea that nothing happens is not a permissible...

I'm simply responding to a description of a problem someone had with a certain situation and pointing out that the problem is with the...

So there are a few ways to look at this. First, have all those factors actually been set already? The weather and the location of...