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It adds to the feeling that the world is a living, breathing place and exists beyond the PCs.

One of my favorite rpg situations were when the players spent about 1 hour trying to figure out what was up with an obvious trap at the...

I find nothing happens to be an interesting result. Where does that leave us?

It's still very different, because your player could pick any of thousands and thousands of different ways to add to the past. This not...

Except when nothing is in fact something. "Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom."

The moment you narrate they've arrived safely at their destination you've also just established that nothing of any significant danger...

This completely fails (sorry) to address my concerns about failure being turned into success. Remember, the task at hand that's being...

They go all over the place; I was merely trying to posit an example of a situation where "nothing happens" is the most plausible result...

Exactly. The initial claim paraphrased 'too many coincidences makes something as a whole implausible'. An excerpt about one individual...

One dreads the conversation turning toward "immersion" or "realism" but I've argued before that forward facing causality of action...

I don't see "forcing people" to do what everyone already does at an amusement park as forcing them. We already decide yes or no to...

I can absolutely see simple failure as being a critical component of game play where the intent is to apply constraints through the game...

The raising of specific objections is the "enumerate why" piece, and it's the raising of those objections that tends to run smack into...

That would be all of them in this thread. Suppose the level 1 party goes to the local adventuring guild looking for jobs. While there...

The problem you are running into is that the bolded is contradictory. There can be no "must" when anyone can say "no." Nobody can be...