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If it’s something that the PC would “never do”, then obviously it can’t be the result of a successful resolution roll in the game. If...

Even more specifically: it's not left there dangling as a sentence and a "ok cool, figure out how to do this." It's defined with...

I know of no system where "fail forward" is codified and could ever be used to introduce a complication that doesn't make sense. Such...

I wasn't the one who called it railroading. Others did, and you granted it. You had agreed with pemerton that it was being used to keep...

I mean I can tell you but it's so specific I don't think it will be helpful. I was running may adaptation of the very excellent The...

If the GM rolls a NPC's to hit die, and it succeeds, that dictates stuff about how my PC behaved: did I dodge? was I taken in by the...

Yeah. I don't see how it can be questioned that fail forward can be used in D&D. It can be used in any RPG that I can think of.

Well. All I can say is, I have an extremely low opinion of whatever "principles" undergird railroading. But I will emphasize that...

No good deed goes unpunished EzekielRaiden. If someone disagrees with you, the interpretation of motives is always the most evil possible.

I don't understand how FF could ever...not be kept in the GM's control. It's purely expressed in how GMs frame scenes where someone...

... So, let me get this straight. You want me to give you demonstrations of Fail Forward...in the contexts where that technique...

More just a general awareness of what arguments different posters will make.

....no? Like, literally, no, in no way whatsoever? I'm literally saying that the example given won't be meaningful or useful to Lanefan...

From whom? Because I've felt on many occasions that people are straight-up telling me that the rules I use are inherently anti-rational...

This is a huge part of why I am such a cautious player myself, and why I have put in a great deal of effort into making sure my players...