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Nope. You can't succeed - even with a complication - unless the roll says you succeed. Also, I don't buy that success always has to...

Given that game, odds are high it would have been every bit as frustrating only in different ways. :)

For me, the knowledge would come when (unless the GM is a truly amazing improviser with a perfect memory) the GM slipped up and...

It seems you’re stuck on wording rather than the argument. but that aside, I completely reject the notion that a character can be an...

The general sanitization of 2e acted to file off some of the gritty edges from 1e as well; in process changing the tone a bit away from...

Ah. In my take there's no such thing as infinite rerolls - the roll you make represents the best you're gonna do until-unless something...

Magically opening the lock when your lockpick check fails is also one of my main issues with the example. I would not have made it up...

Yep. Because the players drive the the campaign, not me. They failed to achieve some particular goal. As long as the characters...

I appreciate the examples but I still wouldn't want to use the technique. Probably because I don't care if Marshall doesn't learn...

No, because PbtA is not a system which requires Fail Forward! It is perfectly OK for a 6- to simply be "you failed, AND <bad thing X>...

I'd rather instruct people on how to do and discuss better design instead of just throwing on a duct tape patch. No I didn't. They...

Why the heck would you think anyone ever confuse an imaginary thief for real people at the table? Are we idiots? Don’t answer that...

Yes, we all understand that. The double duty is the part we dislike.

On this much at least, we're in full agreement. :) The only time a roll might in fact conjure them into existence is if-when there's a...

I agree that probably the biggest issue I have is that the attempted action still succeeded when it should have failed according to the...