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Then I'm not sure why you'd object to a failed roll alerting her. She's involved. No, it doesn't. Success or failure... good outcome...
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That’s one way to look at it I guess. Let’s look at Daggerheart again: Keep the Story Moving Forward “Every time a player makes an...
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Yeah, where I see a problem is when things are decided in a way which subverts player's choices. The old 'quantum ogre' which appears...
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Ah, so you think that improvisation is the same as cheating.
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It's not a duct tape patch; it's a mechanic which many games use to great ability. Perhaps shockingly, the term fail forward can be...
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Oh, no! Someone used an older name for a technique! The HORROR!
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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...
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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...
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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...
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You think there's no in fiction reason why the cook is in the kitchen? I dunno, why can't it?
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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...
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The better way to look at it is on a successful roll, things go well, on an unsuccessful roll, things go poorly.
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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...
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One, picking the lock in a fail forward game is generating the result fully using a mechanic. Two, a random table is the most...
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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...
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