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So I can better understand why I don't like it so I can avoid doing similar things in my own games? It might be there's some itch in my...

I think the stakes are rarely clear due to downstream effects of any decision and die roll. I get that. Some of us view soft moves...

Which was kind of my point (I think), people are using Fail Forward to mean different things. What @pemerton is talking about is just...

It's not, and it illustrates a much more common pattern in Narrativist play. Hino sees a bunch of peasants being driven into an assault...

Right, but mostly we seem to design discussion as a rhetorical proxy for arguing our baseline assumptions should be normative of TTRPGs...

Or alternatively, "Using this technique actively works against things I and people like me want out of our gaming experience" without...

I look at it this way. Saying "this technique works if you use Assumption A. This same technique fails if you Assumption B." is...

To be honest, I'm just taking other people's word for it that Australia is real. :)

No, not at all. The PCs can interact with anyone. If it's something the GM hasn't fleshed out explicitly, ideally there are random...

This I think is why some people don't like fail forward. Your expectations of play are different. I know this seems obvious, but for...

Semantics strikes again!

You're the expert. Why the heck would you need to run the game to talk about such a scenario?

Providing a list of reasons the player may do something, doesn't answer a question about the game incentive for doing it. Not all...

So you can tell us we did it wrong the moment what we do deviates from what you do? This isn't just idle speculation, it's happened...

Overall I like this post. Let me try to bring up a few of the things people just aren't getting. 1. I think there is some...