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Indeed. We can take that further, to make the point more clear. The kitchen, which was explicitly placed in the scenario, requires a...

What if... You couldn't tell they were making it up? You could tell they were making it up, but did so in a way that made the game...

But wouldn't it be up to the GM to simply make that connection and narrate it accordingly? As I said, the cook's existence isn't...

You think there's no in fiction reason why the cook is in the kitchen? I dunno, why can't it?

You speak for most traditional DMs now? As far as I recall, fail-forward was included in the 4e DMG, 2014 DMG and 2024 DMG, so it is a...

The better way to look at it is on a successful roll, things go well, on an unsuccessful roll, things go poorly.

In older editions of D&D, attempting to pick a lock would absolutely involve a random encounter roll. As would searching a room or X...

One, picking the lock in a fail forward game is generating the result fully using a mechanic. Two, a random table is the most...

The point of "make it some other complication" isn't trying to sell you on it. It's to address the faulty way the technique is being...

I think that skill at lockpicking also includes how fast and how quietly you can pick a lock... these things are an important component...

The earliest examples i recall didn't actually have characters succed - failing forward was failing, but with an obvious sign of what...

That's fine. They don't have to. I'm not asking them to. I'm asking you and others to either present other styles of play in an accurate...

Then....don't? Personal dislike of a technique is completely orthogonal to the technique's validity.

The "failure" is the metagame result of not meeting the target number, not so much the narrative result. I just thought of another fun...

Daggerheart defines it like this FAILING FORWARD In Daggerheart, every time you roll the dice, the scene changes in some way. There is...