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No game is entirely GM or player driven. Teamwork makes the dream work.

Get a new repair man.

You don't, because you can't. Oh, you can skip past walking somewhere, but you can't go off into the trees to look for herbs the way we...

I understand your example, but I am unclear what point you are trying to make with it. I keep saying that some people don't like the...

The 2024 advice like this is written for new players and DMs. A lot of people, especially newbie DMs run linear games, it's a popular...

It also has little bearing on whether a particular game is considered a sandbox unless you're trying to "prove" something.

When these coincidences happen every time I fail a roll, they're no longer coincidences.

So as I said, I was not correct in details. I may have goofed in terminology if I implied the GM, instead of the players, must make a...

What some of us find implausible (not impossible) is that something interesting happens every time you roll the dice. We can also find...

Hmm. The outcome isn't fixed; that's why you roll the dice. But the world is fixed. I posted a similar example from Blades a month ago...

What the roll locks or unlocks is progression in a different direction and-or with a different purpose. For example, from my own game...

Whether that is true or not is irrelevant. @The Firebird was talking about how the mechanic makes them feel. They never claimed that...

Sure, you can look at it that way. As I've mentioned several times, the things I'm arguing are simply that a single point of failure...

I never got to that point. The part where Tom Bombadill, well, deus ex'd the group from the barrow-wights and then dressed them up like...