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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...

I'm not sure why it was used as an example in the linked article. I think it's a terrible example because it lacks the greater context...

Oh, no! Someone used an older name for a technique! The HORROR!

No, because PbtA is not a system which requires Fail Forward! It is perfectly OK for a 6- to simply be "you failed, AND <bad thing X>...

Here's two examples from play of the sort of "Fail Forward" that I've previously defined (the scene changes on a roll), and that...

Sure, but why? It's a dice roll that tells us the cook is there, which is something that you said you're fine with. Prefer, actually.

This seems to confuse an imaginary person - the thief - with a real world social event - the conversation and rolling of dice at the table.

People are responding as if the people who are taking exception to the fail forward example are trying to sell them on fail forward as...

That isn't a point of contention. Nobody thinks you actually secretly want to do it. The points of contention seem to be whether the...

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...

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

My favorite line on a 7-9 (success but complicated) is the roughly “the GM will present you with a lesser success, cost, complication...

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

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...

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...