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You keep repeating this phrase as if it's a bad thing. It isn't.

For me, knowing how the decisions are made makes them feel contrived. Even if the outcome is reasonable I know that nothing is fixed...

Absent kryptonite, Superman has about +40 in any skill you can possibly think of; and he doesn't auto-fail on a 1. Which is part of...

I don't see it as necessarily being poor design, though. When I design a dungeon-type adventure, unless I'm intentionally designing...

The death would not be caused by the failure in a game I run. A one time or rare ticking clock runs out because you don't get there in...

Also why "Run away!!!" is often heard from adventuring parties.

I said I don't want to play a game that uses fail forward in the way you describe with a cost that is not directly caused by the...

There is a reason the phrase "Are you SURE you want to do that?" is a mantra in D&D. DM control is as much about saving players from...

So your argument is that we're lying?

So in other words just more "You're wrong but I won't try to explain or understand why you have a mistaken perspective. I'm just going...

I answered that. There could always be a ticking clock, the friend dies if you don't get there in time. But the cause of the death is...

Rule of storytelling: Deus ex machina is frequently cheap and/or boring. If an NPC is going to bust them out, it should be a known...

Are they? You've looked at every sandbox ever made, including the homebrew ones, and determined this is the case all the time? It's...

For me it's about general approach. Nobody thinks D&D (or any other RPG that I know of) is a particularly good simulation of the real...

IMO. Fail forward usually invalidates some premises of traditional play. Things like: Success is completing the task not some...