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I don't have a problem with what you do. Totally fine. But "where the players drive the game forward and the GM just makes sure...

But in the fiction, the cook was always there. The lockpick failure was just the reason the cook was encountered at that particular...

So the issue isn’t that the « cook appeared out of nothing » which as we’ve established occurs whether the GM uses fail forward or a...

Whether you like or not, 4e was as much a traditional D&D game as AD&D or BECMI. Fail-forward is not an optional rule in either DMGs I...

I mean, yea? If you want to pre-establish stuff, then fail forward techniques might be less useful because you have less freedom to...

“And when we die, our bodies feed the grass. Thus we are all connected in the great circle of life.”

Coming up with a narration for why a cook might be in the kitchen of a manor house late at night doesn’t require some exceptional DMing...

No, you're playing the game wrong. When your argument gets shown to be without merit, instead of accepting that your argument was...

Wizard’s tower? I don’t know where that came from. I’ve been talking about the example that was linked with the cook and the kitchen.

Right… again, the example as presented was not great. It’s really incomplete and was only meant to give a basic idea of the fail forward...

Yes… the area where the PCs are!

Way to assume the worst. As has already been explained to you… by me and by @Campbell , it’s just a different type of GMing. Must you...

Decided in what way? Written down in some way? Included in some boxed text? Statted out as full fledged NPC? Is it not enough to...

Right, I think this sort of thing only really matters if your focus is on maintaining a specific narrative thread. There's also lots of...

@pemerton just to share Daggerheart's specific guidance for your note, it calls the "narrating failure as your PC sucking ass" out under...