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What you seem to be ignoring, and I don't know why, is that fail forward does not have to open the lock. Short of a specific RPG making...

Of course it's all preference and what kind of game you're running. I don't care for narrative games and prefer a more simulationist...

Yeah. I've never really thought about it like that, but for the DM all possibilities are there until one of them is selected(chosen or...

Yea. I think the keyword there is 'in that moment'. Though I do think it's interesting that it still occurs for the DM.

Discussion in this thread reminds me of an earlier one on (non-)sequiturs. I mention that not to disagree with your reasoning that...

To the bolded: so in DW a character can never outright fail, or fail backwards, at an attempted task? Yeah, that's a bit much.

I find it far better to roll the wandering monsters in advance, because if there is one then I can figure out how best to fit that...

All of that checks out for me. I followed that exact procedure a few days ago while prepping for my Thursday A5e game.

That's why it's a playstyle choice. Some folks have no issue with it and want to play that way. Some folks don't. And as I've pointed...

Yes. I'm looking at the moment of the picking of the lock and opening the door to the kitchen. In that moment in one method the cook...

I was struggling to follow your reasoning on why quantum and why not earlier but this makes more sense. It's that you are viewing the...

I think this depends on the table/DM outlook on the situation. From my standpoint, the only assumed thing there is number 1. Opening...

Meanwhile everyone in the house is now wide awake listening to these guys have a long conversation in the garden...

Indeed, but ideally they're not quantum: there's an in-fiction reason those wanderers are there and (unless there's a gate or spawner...

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