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Trophy: Dark. "Trophy Dark is a collaborative storytelling game about a group of treasure-hunters on a doomed expedition into a forest...
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Yes, it can work either way in a game. But that's why I was trying to get people to look at it in real life examples. How we would...
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You guys are being too literal with this. If he was trying to pass his driving test, he was probably in high school or not too long out...
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The argument isn't that nothing else is at stake, just that the only thing directly adjudicated by the die roll is the task. If I roll...
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There have been lots of people who have said, or effectively said, that it's wrong, stupid, railroading, pointless, "quantum", to play...
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Yes, because I have shown many times that there can be consequences beyond just success/failure of the task. Other things may happen as...
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No. You really need to stop twisting things people say to justify your pearl clutching. I said that when we look at someone attempting...
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Well, first off… do you see what those little arrows are doing to the letters? They’re connecting them! If we look back, I was objecting...
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What about the barter? This s not just a throw-away difference. It's fundamental!
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All I'm saying is that, if you want to see how "fail forward" might be used in 5e D&D, @hawkeyefan has provided some examples.
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But this isn't true. It's possible to play narrativist using actor stance almost exclusively. I've done this, using AD&D and...
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I don’t think that only one side is acknowledging this. Everyone I recall posting in favor of Fail Forwars acknowledged that it’s about...
Jun 29, 2025
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I don't know. There have been a lot of posts about how Apocalypse World and Burning Wheel work from "trad-leaning posters", but many of...
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This guy hopes his PC can kill the Orc. He rolls and is successful, and so the Orc is dead as he wanted. Or . . . This guy hopes that...
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