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Rule of storytelling: Deus ex machina is frequently cheap and/or boring. If an NPC is going to bust them out, it should be a known...

Are they? You've looked at every sandbox ever made, including the homebrew ones, and determined this is the case all the time? It's...

That's a huge assumption. It's incredibly easy to come up with something interesting that is 100% in the fiction. Example: they're in an...

Because these cases are rarely about things like outdoor survival rolls. They're usually more about things like the Very Important Thing...

I think Micah is possibly the one person here open and clear that his preferences are such that “hewing as close to fictional reality”...

So I just wanted to snip this bit out because I think it’s very relevant. First, I want to say that I understand your reasoning on this...

On a slightly different point, this comment helped me identify more clearly the problem I have with fail forward in a more grounded...

I hardly think having something interesting happen instead of having nothing happen is making reality bend over backwards.

Like I said, never in my experience. Hmm. No, I just don't see it. The characters may not be having fun, but the players should be.

While the appearance of a duck can seem to be random, ducks always have a purpose and it is often a sinister one. Anatidaephobia is no...

And that makes a major assumption about how groups play. I've never had a group go partway into a dungeon, then turn around and go back...

I suppose a mechanical consideration of this that does deserve more attention is that not having fail forward style contingent fiction...

Real life is often boring, frustrating, or all-around awful, none of which are good things for a game. If the players are actually...

In my game one of the characters suggested using "dwarven lockpick" aka his hammer when the rogue rolled a 1 and jammed the lock*, they...

I’ve had … mixed experiences. I hosted a couple of sessions a while back for a new group assembled off a Facebook ‘looking for group’...