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Why do you offer a save?

I mean, I know GMs used to be that way back in the day, but...if a bad roll or two is all it takes to wipe out months of investing in a...

So, with my 4 free hours of game time available per month, I have invested in this character, and rolling a 1 trying to scale the cliff...

True. My bad.

In this case, it’s not about fail forward. It’s about a GM designing a dungeon or a scenario where there is one path forward to...

That’s all fine. My point is not that anyone has to like this approach… it was that your characterization of it was inaccurate. There’s...

I don't know what you mean by "story driven play". I mean, you're the guy who says that you want fiction over rules; yet you seem to be...

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.