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In terms of how big a problem it is, how many people run the sort of games that would make it so is absolutely relevant, and its not...

The setting being saved can be a neighborhood, a town, a county, a river valley, etc, of course.

Saving the world isn't the only things people do in games. Sometimes it isn't even a thing that's on the table.

I'll just note, as I always do, this has a lot more to do with the opposition you're going to face than your particular power level...

OK. But when talking about RPGs that use "fail forward", it doesn't seem right to say that they make a decision that is "unconnected"...

I don't envisage it being different from a soft move (and I'm not an expert on pbta). I was just attempting to find some daylight...

I'm not talking about the word. As @Campbell has repeatedly posted in this thread, I'm talking about what play is about. What it is...

So I ran a session. In person. I feel like there was an alignment of the spheres to make this possible. There's a new bar/restaurant...

This last claim seems to me to be false. Or rather, to be true only if the GM is bad - that is, if in response to the info-gathering...

This goes to @Campbell's point. Someone who doesn't like "fail forward" gives an example of clumsy GMing - narrating the cook in the...

Agreed. Upthread I think I posted this play example: The encounter with the harbour official is not an "obstacle" that Aedhros has to...

Again, this depends a lot on the game. This is one of the reasons that "nothing happens" is seen as an undesirable result by some...

Though I have to point out its entirely possible to have had preferences that never aligned much with D&D that don't really align...

To be fair, in most games which rely heavily on success with complications generally rolls should only be called for when the...

What I personally find frustrating is that many people approach from the perspective of there being this like platonic form of...