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i have to at least agree with @EzekielRaiden point with this particular bit, just using the spells you already know how to cast, no...

Sure. I had presumed that. I don't really buy that the time--what, a minute? two minutes?--taken to pick a lock is relevant for this...

Do you make your players roll to choose which path they take in the labyrinth? Because this seems a textbook example of something where...

My argument on this is: 1. Yes, that's the description. It is pure "informed ability" as TVTropes would put it. Players simply do not...

Given that's how you add in contextualisation for a player learning fireball, do you do that for every new spell the player learns? What...

This makes me wonder. If alignment were rare by default, nearly everyone would share your frustration. If alignment were common by...

But they never SHOW experimenting with the two spells. They never SHOW "developing" the new spell. It never happens "on-camera". It is...

This never occurs in Dungeon World--and, IMO, it should be extremely rare anywhere else. And now you're doing what all sorts of OSR...

But that explicitly ISN'T the same thing. That's them creatively using the spells they already have. It is NOT experimentally developing...

I thought I was pretty clear. If you can't get players to agree to the rules and tone of the game, to the point that you can't play the...

If the people you play with won't act like adults to the point you can't actually play some games with them, why game with them at all?

That's why a major part of narrative games is the idea that the players are working together with the GM to create the story, and as...

Didn't the whole cook thing come up as a "fail forward" or "success with complications" example? This seems more like critical failure...

I'm going to guess that these were pretty short cliffs and banks, if you were a kid, not the twenty, fifty, hundred, or even...

I dunno, I'm a little bit surprised that it is the posters who profess to favour "simulationist" play that are making all these posts...