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In a fail-forward scenario, the consequence for failing forward is necessarily one the GM would consider plausible, so it is natural...

That's why there's usually multiple things that can happen in a fail forward, not just "noise."

Yeah. With Bloodtide its probably just part of his schtick, but I've noted the built in assumption in phrasing on a number of people...

The choice of the loaded word "rant" is interesting.

Why does this make a difference? You keep on returning that in one case, the cook is just "created" but in the other case they aren't...

Except you aren't considering the facts presented by the fiction. You're inventing new facts. Like that picking a lock or opening a...

I would say modern locks don't create much noise when lockpicking, but a Medieval lock would be much louder as the components probably...

With the qualifier that there is no objective "makes sense", yes. The lengthy discussion of a single example has largely overridden the...

Yep. I, personally, can't square "I want the setting to feel like it exists" with "Rolling a cook on an encounter table, instead of...

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...