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We're going around in circles and I think I'm not explaining myself well. My whole point is that fail forward design structure can...

How the heck is this getting twisted into me saying anything about how Burning wheel should be played?

Nope not going to happen. We weren’t talking specifically about Burning Wheel despite you bringing into the conversation as an example...

Left to my druthers, I would go a step further and say "you can't have a game" at all, but that's unnecessarily hostile in this space...

Sure. And not here, where everyone understands other modes of play and has assumedly already decided their preferences, but for a...

I agree. But in such a listing you should also in this context include some questions that would show a player actually prefering...

And the standard answer is of course "because that is a different activity than the one we love?"

I'll go you one further. Once I started a Traveller game. I just told the players that their characters were on a small station. They...

Right, I don't really think that's a bad thing, so much as the earseeker was a stupid escalation that led to weird results...

See, this is a great summation of the ongoing fight about language. That's a narrativist summation of what's happening; I'd propose the...

I would agree. I mean, the entire point of a fail-forward game with focus on narrative generation is that there is no defined fail...

Shouldn’t there be some kind of roll to detect the guards? Or is that not how DW works?

I realized the irony about halfway through, but just like in d&d retreat is never a good option ;)

I'm shocked that citing the authority of academic sources wasn't able to solve a division in what "appeal to authority" means. :)

The disengage issue doesn’t even need a rule change. Just never have an enemy move 5ft away and then disengage. By and large I feel...