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Was it quantum before it was preestablished?

Can one not mechanically optimize characters in the 'typical games using fail forward'?

I see. The basic premise being that if it's instantiated early enough then you can adequately account for it in relation to the players...

I've been thinking and this seems like a good springboard. Why is a Random Table to determine the Cook's presence not quantum? Say...

That's fair. I am much more used to Dungeon World and similar PbtAs where intent is not as explicitly separated from tasks (sometimes...

If the cook is only there because of the lockpick roll, yes. Improv =/= quantum. Existing and not existing until after a die is rolled...

Ideally their notes would have spelled it out beforehand, saying something like: Kitchen. Day: 2 cooks and 1 dishwasher. Night: 1-in-6...

Thanks for engaging with the example.

I think we can take it that the cook screaming is a hard move. So let's reason back - what player-side move failed, such that the cook...

It seems exactly like that kind of case to me? I get the cook wasn't introduced at the same moment the hard move occurs, but making the...

There's some really straightforward masteries like graze or cleave. So IMO, it's still possible to do simple, and never really was...

No. That's the purpose of life :)

And I'm positing that optimal play from a game perspective would be to use Discern Realities as little as possible. Now maybe it's that...

This is a soft move in AW/DW parlance, Describe Future Badness (IIRC). There are a bunch of things that could be going on. First, the...

It's never been a question of "Could the GM come up with something interesting." We're not stupid. It's about approach to the game's...