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Party has been captured by bad guys. They've been left in a cell to rot. They must escape from the cell in order to accomplish any other...

Yeah, for some of us interacting with the mechanics isn't just something on the way to the story, its part of the point in the exercise...

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

Okay. You say this as though those things are, like...controversial. But the plain reading of their opposite is the action grinding to...

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

Sure, what might be worth skipping in this way may vary. But my point that doing so won't harm the consistency or continuity of a game...

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...

Well, I think there is a general point here, which is that pacing matters to pretty much everyone. It's a subjective thing, so different...

The way I've generally gone about it is, if the players really want to make an event out of visiting an ordinary shopkeeper for ordinary...

I would say it’s more like how most movies handle it. You watch the character get into a car and pull away… then they cut to a scene of...

As usual, well-said. And it doesn't even need to be H,H,H,H...; it could be HxHHxHHHxHxHxHHHHxH... or any of a million variations where...

What @hawkeyefan said. "Exciting" is a useful shorthand for "interesting, exciting, emotionally resonant, etc".' @zakael19 got at...

It depends on the context, but for some of these: Some doors can be forcibly opened that way, some can't. Many dungeon doors are made...

Entirely fair. I would not say that this effect happens all the time. Just that, in at least some cases, the distracting meta-thinking...