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The adversarial GM stance when controlling opponents are well known. Similarly the neutral stance of the referee is well known. But to...

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

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...

Ok! I fully agree with everything you say here! However I would like to reflect a bit more over the pedagogy in play here. Presenting...

Er...no? I am responding to an argument which paints things like "fail forward" as deeply, inherently problematic and wrong--often with...

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 didn't 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...