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What really “fails forward” IMO is the scene and the fiction. It’s not “fail succeed,” it’s a conscious avoidance of “nothing happens.”

One, picking the lock in a fail forward game is generating the result fully using a mechanic. Two, a random table is the most...

"Fail backward" would be, "not only did you not succeed, but now things are worse than if you hadn't tried at all." You want a...

If that is the case, doesn’t the fail-forward GM have exactly the same amount of latitude to decide that the consequence of the failure...

So, it is important to remember what fail forward was designed to prevent - stalling during a session of play. There are GMs who say...

But you are only considering circumstances in which it DOESN’T make sense. That is the point. If the situation was that a cook was...

That's why there's usually multiple things that can happen in a fail forward, not just "noise."

What if we called it, "success with complications" instead of "fail-forward"? That would remove the issue with failure being success...

No, it doesn’t. You’re changing the example to justify your conclusions. The example was that a rogue PC unexpectedly decided to break...

Or they live there. A feature of many manors that employed a maid or cook would be a maid’s room just off the kitchen. They might be...

So, if you roll a cook on a random table, does it suddenly become less implausible? The criticism that was made against « fail forward...

You're hung up on the cook. In lock picking, fail forward means, you get in, but there's a complication of some sort. Such as: you...

That is not my reading of the examples at all.

But you're not pretending there are no guards. You simply narrate that there are guards, but your skill as a thief renders their...

So games that are primarily improvised are... not virtuous?