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And background events move entirely on their own, without GM input, in tradgames?

I appreciate the Gary helped commercialize a game I've enjoyed but the guy said a whole lot of things I disagree with.

You missed it then: I've literally only heard of the Forge through this thread. So no, the friend isn't dead because you failed to...

Yes! You are saying you’d rather spend time on the herb gathering on the off-chance that something interesting happens. I’m saying I’d...

Well, you were saying that fail-forward didn't make sense because it kept players from doing things like listening at doors. My point...

By not being stupid, mostly. And because my players don't have "murder ALL the creatures!" as their primary impulse. It's amazing what...

I don't understand where you're getting "any one of hundreds" of rolls. Are you assuming a random event table? However, I can't imagine...

Oh, my players absolutely took this route to convincing the bugbears (or was it the Hobgoblins?) in Lost Mines that they should stop...

I had a player in a game once who decided, out of the blue, that they were going to offer every goblinoid they saw a job. A legitimate...

I'll point out people have heart attacks and die, but we don't normally do that in a game. So its not a question of "does it happen"...

You're taking that passage a bit out of context. There's a house that the PC is sneaking into. You, as the GM, have an idea of who or...

IIRC, the original idea for this is that you had to climb the cliff to save the friend. If the friend is just waiting at the top of...

Then I’m not following at all why you have an issue with what we’re talking about. If there is a predefined time pressure… it could be...

That's not nothing, though. That was a success on a roll, not a failure. The failure would have been the kaboom, which is something.

And I think we probably both agree that's a very rare situation. Very much a jerk move, because it's entirely GM fiat. They have no...