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Ah! That is the context you are missing! The context was bringing fail-forward techniques into traditional games with no regard for any...

I had a (probably inadvisable) idea that might be related to that, which was to propose* that Narrativism (like Western dramatism) is...

It's certainly worth it to read the entire blog post. It engages with precisely these points.

Sorry; must be the brain damage. :)

I don't have any specific RPG in mind. However it seem like any system with fail with consequences and poor GM guidance would be...

I cannot express how happy I am you brought this blog post to my attention! I was actually crying halfway trough. So trying to...

Your theory roughly matches the idea of noetic satisfaction proposed some years back as a core agenda of simulationism. Examples were...

In the abstract, avoiding having "nothing happen" is a good thing because it has the decided benefit of helping prevent play bogging...

Yes, author stance is in no way incompatible with the idea of a idea of an independent world you have limited and well defined ability...

Yes, this is strongly speculative on my part. But it is based on what I have heard from others. I would be extremely interested to hear...

I sort of agree to that theory, and that is why I would be careful to introducing the simulation term into the discurse. The problem is...

I think it is important to understand why a result "feeling unrelated to" the check is a really bad thing in a certain style of play...

No. The point of the check is to find out if you are successful at whatever task you attempted. At least that’s it for traditional...

Meh. You just wasted a whole five minutes, and it was your choice to push your luck trying to get a bunch of extra skills knowing full...

I don't disagree here but I think it's an important distinction whether we are talking about keeping the check from occuring vs doing...