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So, it is important to remember what fail forward was designed to prevent - stalling during a session of play. There are GMs who say...

Or to ask an even broader question, could you enjoy a trad-style game if you knew the DM was just making everything as they want along...

If that is the case, doesn’t the fail-forward GM have exactly the same amount of latitude to decide that the consequence of the failure...

But they weren’t. They were only there because the GM made a random encounter roll and rolled 82: cook. And the GM only made the...

Right. It matters to people that it's not being made up at the moment. I don't why that's the issue, but it is THE issue.

But you are only considering circumstances in which it DOESN’T make sense. That is the point. If the situation was that a cook was...

It seems well within the trad approach for the DM to roll a random encounter because of the rogue’s lock picking failure. So how is the...

I mean, if your requirement is that NPCs are always pregenerated into a fictional space beforehand, than any mechanic that doesn't...

There might be any number of reasons why a failed roll to pick a lock might be heard by someone in the room next to the kitchen...

No, it doesn’t. You’re changing the example to justify your conclusions. The example was that a rogue PC unexpectedly decided to break...

Kind of amazing how an example designed to make fail forward look ridiculous makes it look ridiculous. A much more artful version of the...

Same thing that happens if a trad GM rolls on a table and no encounter (or a different encounter) happens. The cook was elsewhere.

I mean, my settings theoretically have billions of NPCs that "exist" in the setting. But the only ones that matter are the ones that...

More the point was that "showing your work", as it were, exclusively after "your work" no longer communicates anything, won't really...

What's ugly about the fact that different people play RPGs differently, for different reasons?