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I'm fine with degrees of failure/success as long as underneath it all a fail ultimately remains a fail and a success ultimately remains...

I have a problem with them if I'm running a more grounded game, with the Living World precepts we've talked about in this thread. "Even...

I don't mind a marginal success roll getting a complication tacked on, but the odds of failure are often already low enough there's no...

Whereas I feel there's nothing wrong with a GM whose fun in the hobby comes from something more than doing whatever my players want. I'm...

Why should I just give success when the fiction (or the rules) dictates success isn't guaranteed? That's why we roll: to see if they...

Again, nothing wrong with sharing preferences and styles and discussing how we do things. Someone might even use this as an opportunity...

I'm glad you found something you enjoy. Because I have as well. You claim to not be holier than thou immediately after telling me that...

This kind of framing of the discussion is what I really, truly don't get. Why would I have any interest in making my game more...

There isn't, and I know what conservative means, but culturally it is often seen as an unpopular or even problematic stance to take...

Agreed as to what you say in the literal sense, however in a lot of countries (including the one I'm in) "conservative" carries almost...

First off, I'm not sure there are as many of those as you're implying. I think a pretty fair number are looking for "I get what I want...

To the two bolded bits: what's the difference? IME what players tend to best accept is that which makes reasonable sense. On a...

There's many more styles of gaming than "beer & pretzels" and narrativist. Personally I have different styles for different groups that...

Perhaps more to the point, and despite narrative games' insistence to the contrary, there is nothing wrong with "nothing happens" being...

I'm with @Micah Sweet on this one. I don't set out to tell an interesting story, I set out to play an interesting and engaging game...