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Given that's how you add in contextualisation for a player learning fireball, do you do that for every new spell the player learns? What...

I think the issue is that there are two large groups, which remain consistent within themselves...but which frequently interact, meaning...

To their view a straight failure does not add extra complications, other than whatever loss of time is involved. A PbtA failure...

But they never SHOW experimenting with the two spells. They never SHOW "developing" the new spell. It never happens "on-camera". It is...

This never occurs in Dungeon World--and, IMO, it should be extremely rare anywhere else. And now you're doing what all sorts of OSR...

I guess I don't understand how a "fumble" isn't "just a straight failure". Sure, it's a significant failure...but that's still just a...

But that explicitly ISN'T the same thing. That's them creatively using the spells they already have. It is NOT experimentally developing...

The only possible answer is "yes". It is both things simultaneously, by construction--albeit not "dramatic" as that implies "I am a...

Well, at least for me, it's because that situation is simply more realistic than the alternative. But if you'd like my reasoning, it is...

Well, at least that last bit is definitely one of the frustrations I've had thus far, and one of the reasons I ask for things like...

That's the thing. You're assuming the GM would never want to do this. An infinitude of reasons are out there for why someone might...

No. In D&D combat, no one decides who lives and who dies. A mechanical process is used, and all the participants are agreed to go along...

But it absolutely does! Because the GM can simply write enough world-content to ensure that the timeline changes in the way they want...

No. They are the vast majority of complications. That's the problem here. You dismiss them as being a minor irrelevancy. But as you have...

And I have seen it very specifically change from information that is not yet determined to rolls that are not (sufficiently) related to...