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Because you can't. Because why should they? Nearly every other roll involves the players choosing to do something, or else succumbing to...

I do have to wonder if this mentality is due to crazy ideas being hindered, vetoed, or outright punished by the GM. Edit: I don't...

At this point I think every single poster in this thread that's even a mild proponent of the concept of Fail Forward in any game has...

FWIW, I've kinda come around a bit on how say Blades encodes this whereas at first I really hated the idea of being all "ok you have...

My point is that with games like GURPS and other games with traits you buy or make for yourself, you're choosing to buy that trait. With...

I disagree here. Killing a character is permanent, yes, but taking them over and making them act in ways contrary to what the player...

Wait, wait, wait. If you let dice determine what your character is doing, that's playing in character. If you decide what your character...

Have you even bothered to google "fail forward D&D" to find out ways to use that method with the game?

No. As it was my game, I'm going to explain it to you. I already have done that, but I know this is a long thread with many different...

The GM has more power than the players do, even in the most player-friendly of games. These rules are here to prevent an imbalance of power.

How is it good design to have your ability to make decisions about your characters actions taken away from you because of die rolls...

It is, however, when you consistently use strawmen and bad examples to prove your point. I don't even care if you don't actually...

We're not talking about attack rolls here. We're talking about failing morale rolls and persuasion checks and thus being forced to flee...

That's also not how it works. OK, do you know the term whump as used in fanfic? If not, it's basically how some (many) fanfic writers...

The problem then is that you want consistent rules for something that, as you say, isn't consistent. Trauma--long term type trauma...