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Your argument boils down to why prep when complication is still on the table. Why drink a potion of fire resistance when the red dragon...

Right. The "refutation" of fail forward by presenting examples of it being done badly - fully-staffed kitchens in the middle of the...

This last claim seems to me to be false. Or rather, to be true only if the GM is bad - that is, if in response to the info-gathering...

That's fair. I'm not advocating for rules change just exploring in what situation a Fail Forward could work.

This goes to @Campbell's point. Someone who doesn't like "fail forward" gives an example of clumsy GMing - narrating the cook in the...

It was unclear to me if you were expecting a second action or not, that's why I clarified. But yes... a hard move should follow a soft...

Agreed. Upthread I think I posted this play example: The encounter with the harbour official is not an "obstacle" that Aedhros has to...

Again, this depends a lot on the game. This is one of the reasons that "nothing happens" is seen as an undesirable result by some...

What I replied to, about adventures, was this: And that characterisation is (in my experience) not accurate for Burning Wheel. Burning...

And none of the comments made here since pointing out why the example you sited was incomplete or how it could be made to work have done...

So, basically only one very specific game mechanics is acceptable and all other variations are simply wrong because they're different...

It doesn’t have to happen every time if you don’t want. Some games make Fail Forward an explicit part of the procedures. For other...

Going back to OD&D or Basic, a lot of dungeon play is oriented around minimizing time spent in the dungeon, such that wandering...

You said "I don't see the same process working for D&D". Since I've used very similar processes in D&D, my experience is different than...

I've played D&D like this for over a decade, so....