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That's... entirely not the point here.

Official example where? There's no single source of this technique, and like most gaming mechanics, it's evolved over time. It often...

In many games of this sort, there's not two separate checks here. There's a Burglary check, or a Dexterity check, or something like...

Yes, that's the mechanic. That's how it works. Mechanics don't have to mean that there is only a single possible result. Often it is...

Oh, no! Someone used an older name for a technique! The HORROR!

Ah, so you think that improvisation is the same as cheating.

It's not a duct tape patch; it's a mechanic which many games use to great ability. Perhaps shockingly, the term fail forward can be...

Indeed. We can take that further, to make the point more clear. The kitchen, which was explicitly placed in the scenario, requires a...

But wouldn't it be up to the GM to simply make that connection and narrate it accordingly? As I said, the cook's existence isn't...

They didn't hear or see the PCs, obviously.

My favorite line on a 7-9 (success but complicated) is the roughly “the GM will present you with a lesser success, cost, complication...

In older editions of D&D, attempting to pick a lock would absolutely involve a random encounter roll. As would searching a room or X...

What if... You couldn't tell they were making it up? You could tell they were making it up, but did so in a way that made the game...

Because whoever owns the door isn't going out of their way to make life easy for the PCs. Yes, that's true. That's why fail forward...

The earliest examples i recall didn't actually have characters succed - failing forward was failing, but with an obvious sign of what...