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If the dispositions are identical than, by definition, they will. @hawkeyefan and I are not making any assertion about how common such...
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Here is the approach I was posting about: At step 2, the GM thinks about the scenario and decides what will happen. That is why I regard...
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I didn't say they fully model reality. But they avoid D&D-style stop motion. Which, as I posted, refutes your claim (post 13,269) that...
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Correct. That's why the punch, as I said, is not a sufficient condition. It is an INUS condition. As I also posted, the sufficient...
Jun 21, 2025
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Er...no? It doesn't take that many iterated rolls. Going back to the 60% chance--what would you consider "near 0"? I would say "less...
Jun 21, 2025
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Objectively, if you apply the same bonuses--so the only thing that differs is the roll itself--having to pass multiple checks ALWAYS...
Jun 21, 2025
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Certainly. It's helped that I've mostly worked with new players myself, but my usual approach is to emphasize the impending nature of...
Jun 21, 2025
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No, what I mean is, I cannot conceive of a situation in Dungeon World (indeed, in any PbtA game) where you would GET TO the house, and...
Jun 21, 2025
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Sure. It was an unforeseen problem when TTRPGs were young and largely untested. We've had plenty of time for that to get better, for us...
Jun 21, 2025
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Perhaps, perhaps not. If it is simply "I feel like singing", no system I've ever played supports forcing a roll for that. If it is...
Jun 21, 2025
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The conversation that is play. Like....that's literally how the game works. It is NOT simply "success on a search roll"--whatever that...
Jun 20, 2025
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I didn't say things go badly with a success. I said that it's possible the cook is still there. She may be in the kitchen, unaware...
Jun 20, 2025
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Well, more my point was that this is...a pretty easily foreseeable problem. As in, essentially every designer of a narrative game is...
Jun 20, 2025
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But this has nothing to do with @pemerton's objection? You're saying "you've been surprised". Of course. But that is irrelevant to the...
Jun 20, 2025
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Okay, finally here. So: the game I know is Dungeon World. In this post, I will not be talking about anything except Dungeon World. I...
Jun 20, 2025
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