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Right. The "refutation" of fail forward by presenting examples of it being done badly - fully-staffed kitchens in the middle of the...

Your argument boils down to why prep when complication is still on the table. Why drink a potion of fire resistance when the red dragon...

That's fair. I'm not advocating for rules change just exploring in what situation a Fail Forward could work.

Seriously?! You have an issue with a made up cat? So you don't make things up on the spot? You don't borrow cool ideas from the players...

Maybe. I think they may view you as having just pushed the actual problem off to the cat instead of the person coming to the door...

Lets use that example of the party trying to break into a kitchen (forget the rest of the backstory, as I have not been following every...

That is a worthwhile question for trying to bridge the two playstyles.

Yeah--random tables do this, because random tables are a type of fixed content. And the DM should interpret the results of the table in...

Oh, I appreciate from a technical standpoint a lot of the player facing techniques. They aren't necessarily my cup of tea to run or...

I think if the conclusion here is "people dislike narrative games for well founded reasons about what they get out of play" rather than...

I think there is room for appreciation of both sides, especially if you're running prepped and non-prepped scenarios alike in a huge...

Right, and that works both ways. That's probably why the two sides of this discussion have the preferences that we do.

I mean, we've established that you really shouldn't use a lot of fail-forward if your focus of play is on navigating pre-established...

You can still do prep (Guidance, Potion, Rage) and still miss on an attack. The 7-9 in that game reflects a consequence must arise. Your...

I'm right there with you on the giving up part. I've finally realized how divergent the definitions of fail forward are ... and as far...