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A brief thought. What if one type of game is based on pretending it's not a game?

Yes--because I don't think you're right. This example is a case of "you fail and nothing happens". You failed and didn't get the...

The setting being predefined vs established ad hoc seems besides the point. The GM is still in control of all the things the GM is...

So I was just told that nobody tells us their way is better or that we're doing it wrong. But that's exactly what you're doing. We...

The timing man. They couldn't have said anything in the fiction, because what they said was determined by the roll initiated by the...

So? Sure, but if every time you failed to open the pickle jar you dropped (and maybe broke) it or hurt your wrist or the cat dragged in...

This is me reflecting back how I read some of the participants in this thread writing. If you think this is misrepresenting it, this is...

So now the issue is that I express an opinion? That I don't want the GM doing things simply to move the game forward? It's because I...

It's different if you break it into two steps. The step that's common to both is the randomness of whether the bettor (or dice-roller)...

Sometimes it's a risk, sometimes it's not. But so what? As DM I'm setting things up, I'm not driving the narrative of the game, the...

I brought it up more recently, based on someone else bringing it up somewhere further upthread. The cook's screaming is not my...

...things might happen. It's only if the players choose to do nothing that indeed, nothing further will happen. If you want to look at...

Note that in @clearstream 's example it's the player who escalates things by choice, not the GM forcing said escalation. The player...

Sure. Just as X decides what the prize is (the runes will be beneficial) is not the same as X drew the winning lot.

Until you change it (or try to) by trying a different approach than the one that just failed.