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Don't forget that most narrative games don't allow this level of player power, though. In one, the GM made it up before, and in the...

Except that if the roll fails, neither the players nor the GM will know what would have been in the kitchen on a success. It's not like...

Y'know, people keep getting hung up on the lock and/or cook, but in reality, this applies to anything. Fail to climb a wall, nothing...

What edition are you talking about? 4e and 5e both have very general skills that easily apply to an approach or intent type method. This...

I do think there's clearly a need to make the numbers work, which is trickier than AC. Different levels of magical protection, leveling...

I'm questioning whether there's any need for anyone to claim one or another technique maps to more or less ability to do that. It's...

At the risk of being snide (-r than usual), google it. Seriously: "fail forward D&D" gives tons of websites, blogs, reddit posts, etc...

The other option is that the goblin and the giant have equal chances to hit, but the giant does 10 damage per hit and the goblin does 3...

4e's approach was interesting. There's a rule for the effect of surprise, but no rules at all describe how it is achieved! Thus surprise...

Well, I defer to your direct experience, though I would also assume Wesley has literally run the same scenario or very similar ones...

I've run two free-form murder mysteries. One I adapted from an old Traveller module; I wrote up the 3 player characters and played the...

This is especially important, if we're actually looking at how play works. It's obvious that many elements of the fiction, which must...

I understand "independent of the player". That's why I call the RPGing "GM-driven" or "GM-centred". I assert that, if the trigger for...

But, you do. This is exactly the same process that you use. You choose to have an event occur (or rather the dice choose for you) and...

I could be here (and am) or could be elsewhere (but am not), so am both here and not there? That doesn't make sense to me. I also don't...