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Oh, for--! Are you doing this thing again? We are all aware that the game takes place in an imaginary state.

But it's only because of the failure to drive. As were all the other consequences I posted. It's not independent; it's a direct result.

As someone who doesn't drive for medical reasons... this is ridiculous. Without the ability to drive, you get cut off from so many...

But if nothing happens when you fail to open the jar--there are no consequences, nothing interesting that happens if they fail--why...

Why shouldn't the GM try to make their game more interesting and less likely to grind to a halt due to a bad roll?

This isn't a retort? I don't see how anything you've said disagrees with what I said. That is, your response here is: "Well yes, but...

But there's also no negative consequences for not opening the jar other than not opening the jar. Which means that, in a game, there's...

But that's exactly the issue. This isn't a risk! Explicitly! Because you attempt a thing and, I cannot stress this enough, nothing...

Optimization is like Metagaming: if it seems like a problem it's not because those things exist, it's because you are playing with...

This thread will go well .... Let me start with a story. In American law schools, there's an archetype called a "gunner." It's ... not...

It's not the character development I'm taking about. I'm talking about the game's base expectations. As I said, there's the psychic...

I got another flaming torch to throw. I just realised that the current descriptions of fail forward sound awfully lot like forced...

This is very incorrect. The GM does not have to introduce anything that changes what the scene is about, and if they do introduce...

Right. So. Absolutely none of this address what I was talking about, though. The farrier is a normal feature in a medieval settlement...

Yeah, from what I read and the brief amount I played AW provides a fairly specific post-apocalyptic world.