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Traditional, living world sandbox, as advocated for by the trad gaming crew in this thread, worries about and takes care to establish...

I have some new thoughts I think might be relevant for this thread. It was inspired by a friend rejecting my claim that FATE didnt seem...

If I had made a boo-boo and included a trap that can result in a TPK, in a game where a trap causing a TPK was not an acceptable...

Exactly, that is what I think is the case for most that are not very into fail forward in this thread. Hence the label "royal" ;) I...

I am a bit confused. Are you arguing that a procedure that someone claims are not good for them most of the time should be applied...

I have no problem with fail-forward as a concept. A Blades in the Dark heist would not be the same, mad rush into ever more precarious...

Perhaps more to the point, and despite narrative games' insistence to the contrary, there is nothing wrong with "nothing happens" being...

Again, that's not the purpose of play for me and for all RPGs, it is a consequence of how the game works.

I think the way this is to be interpreted is very different in the two playstyles though. In the narativistic context something new...

I mean, I don't think it's particularly controversial to point out that for D&D, or at least traditional D&D (3e and before), the point...

This is the most effective summary of the divide I've read, on both points. Tying complication to mechanical interaction, instead of...

It's a lot more like American Football and rugby. Maybe even American Football and soccer.

Oh, I'm aware. I just think some people, particularly in the PbtA adjacent sphere, don't understand how much the baked in "complication...

Within the context of this thread people were making points about roleplaying games in general (that is what brought me to this thread...

I said nothing about whether or not other games can hit the same exploration notes. I acknowledge that apples and baseballs are both...