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Why can't it more consistently be "fail backward", though? When breaking into a kitchen and failing the roll, why can't the narration...

I'm not going to argue with that for any edition; though the targets of criticism will be different in each. :) Thing is, what some...

You can actually have it both ways, to a point: have one of the options in the table read "Make s*** up." or "DM prerogative". This can...

As a player, that's pretty much all I want. As a GM, I want to present a setting that allows that experience for my players.

Except the characters in the data came in at a wide variety of levels; they didn't all start at raw 1st. Also, the results are fairly...

Well, one answer might be that ability scores don't obey a bell curve in the general population. If there were a general lack of...

A far better zero to hero* example might be Arya Stark's progression through GoT. * - well, maybe not capital-H "Hero" n the...

Rand al'Thor and Luke Skywalker are just about the worst zero to hero examples one could come up with. They are good at just about...

I do not think so. I do not think it was common in competative play to see a frog men guarding the entrance to a cave and think "hm...

After re-reading, it's clear to me that @pemerton has a different definition of Fail Forward than other people have. I've stated my...

When a poster is saying "Why can't you..." and "This inability to make forward work..." they are telling us the only reason we don't do...

dear lord, i missed one day of visiting this thread and i ended up catching up on it for days.

Except it's still not stakeless. Simply allowing Jane to break into the warehouse without a roll makes a pile of assumptions I'm not...

It's never been a question of "Could the GM come up with something interesting." We're not stupid. It's about approach to the game's...

I don't want to know as a player what my character does not know. There should be a reasonable chance to understand what the risks are...