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Heh, gotta be honest, I really love LITRPG-- I didn't think I would and there's a lot of it that's decidedly amateurish (in the sense...

Hold up, you're conflating two different things here. Novel stuff, like encounters, creatures, situations, traps, all that, is not the...

It seems to me that there's at least 2 lines of argument against a fail forward model, which I'm categorizing as "the argument from...

One dreads the conversation turning toward "immersion" or "realism" but I've argued before that forward facing causality of action...

If I read this correctly it relates to the debate on fail-forward where the "crappy design" is the simple fail mechanic not handling a...

No. They're not seasoned. They're travelling a path with a map in a somewhat wild area. They're fine as long as they stay on the...

On a slightly different point, this comment helped me identify more clearly the problem I have with fail forward in a more grounded...

At that point you're doing the binary-view thing I've complained about again, since now there's only sandboxes and story-centric games...

I suppose a mechanical consideration of this that does deserve more attention is that not having fail forward style contingent fiction...

I don't think this is quite right; the question at stake isn't the actual play or recitation of those situations in full. It's perfectly...

These seem generally distinct in play. For instance, mechanics that establish that X is true of the game world. That establishing may...

Reflecting a bit more on the question of the existence of game world I'm going to draw a rough working distinction between it and shared...

That's just causality all over again though. The situation, ideally, should be interesting enough that there doesn't need to be fiction...

That is actually an interesting line for playtesting. I wonder if you couldn't break those triggers up over several rolls and move the...

I also want to emphasize something I referenced in passing but didn't go into in any great detail: the fact those consequences are...