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So, it is important to remember what fail forward was designed to prevent - stalling during a session of play. There are GMs who say...

I worry whenever "challenge" gets used this way. There's nothing challenging about a die roll; you don't demonstrate more or less skill...

The challenging part is the unnoticed part ;) If anything I would say the dilemma here is if it is the stealth skill or the thief tools...

My ruling would be to use lockpicking. The character is taking exaggerated care and time to move the tumblers slow enough to be quiet...

I kind of agree with − if there is only one rail − then it is still a railroad. If the players can get on and off the rail easily, then...

Roller Coasters still have rails. They are just short rails. You can't get off of one in the middle, or at least that would be a very...

It's not linear if they are being forced down a path. Linear is in one direction, but the PCs can get off/are not forced. Fail forward...

Define particularly challenging? It’s doing a lot of work here. Linear does not equal railroad :(

This is where playstyle and preference make all the difference. My setting actually has billions of NPCs that exist within it. This...

Players opting to get on the rail doesn't make it not a railroad. If everything the players do propels them down the same path towards...

PC: I'm going to try and pick the lock. AnotherGuy: Okay, the DC is 1-0-1-0-0.

If there's nothing particularly challenging about entering the house, there really shouldn't be a roll. The DM should just narrate the...

I think the game continues whether or not a particular check is successful. There doesn't need to be any complication that was not...

If that's the case and it's not just something that moves the story forward, then it's very much a railroad technique. The DM is...

This may have already been answered - but the way I’ve generally seen it in OSR play is that you pre-roll a set of random table results...