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No chance someone who works at the prison gets drunk at the tavern and mentions it?

But by that assertion, literally all possible events COULD, maybe, potentially, possibly, someday, have some kind of consequence that...

I hardly think having something interesting happen instead of having nothing happen is making reality bend over backwards.

...are you being serious?

You act as if no one's ever fallen off a cliff to their death before. Why should that never happen?

I find this both very surprising and very frustrating, because I know I have said to both of you, multiple times, that the books...

Yes, of course! nothing new can happen! Even if it's not new and we all do it to some extent anyway! Never change!!!!

For sure. Some players like it when their characters fail a climbing check and then fall to their deaths.

13th Age has a similar "Fail Forward" philosophy: "...outside of battle, true failure tends to slow action down rather than move the...

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...

It's dumb there, too.

Agreed. It's really dumb to have the Blip, the most major event in human history happen, only to never really mention it again.

Whenever we have any kind of discourse, Max, I lay out a series of points generally based on history, facts, and at least a rough...

In short: Marketability and ease of Design. In Long: 1) Climate Change is a charged political issue rather than something even...

"Slavery is bad. And should be opposed at all times" really shouldn't be a strong stance to take, either. But slavery isn't the issue...