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On a slightly different point, this comment helped me identify more clearly the problem I have with fail forward in a more grounded...

I'd be perfectly happy to see people providing perspectives on why they run and play their games the way they do, or even commenting...

Players don't make hard or soft moves. They just declare actions which invoke basic moves or playbook moves which are just mechanics...

Of course people can believe what they believe, but beliefs can be more or less well grounded in evidence. I don't know what these...

I think that if even the 5e.24 DMG is telling DM's to consider this, it's about as mainstream advice as you can possibly get. To posit...

I mean... saying you can skip past some stuff is decent advice was met with resistance. If that doesn't sum up the thread title...

Not suggesting we should want the things. I'm just disagreeing with the rules bound stuff that I feel does not describe what we do when...

Thanks for your thoughtfulness. The games I would recommend most for someone coming from your position would probably be Stonetop or...

I loved Euchre in college. It's a great little card game with a deceptive amount of depth. Maybe there's something with 5e being Euchre...

There is a wonderful serenity to the idea that the hobby is big enough for both of us.

It's not putting the rules over the fiction and is still very much constrained by the shared fiction (what has been established). Both...

So, in Narrativist play the fun is still coming from the people and the fiction we create together. We are just creating it differently...

Sure, what might be worth skipping in this way may vary. But my point that doing so won't harm the consistency or continuity of a game...

Though it can do that, that's not the only place SPoF comes in; if you set up a situation (and by "set up" I can just mean deciding once...

To clarify, Fail Forward as put forward by Burning Wheel is not succeeding when you would fail. It's you fail to achieve what you intend...