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Appeal to an authority is not a fallacy. For instance, I believe that exposure to radiation in large doses is harmful to human health...

What I find weird is that you will post again and again that realism, causality etc are fundamental to your enjoyment of RPGing. But...

It's a skill that needs to be developed and you are basically starting at square one as a GM. Experience running more conventional games...

What error do you think I have made in reading the rules of Burning Wheel and applying them in play?

Why do you offer a save?

Yes, it's a consequence of failure. If you succeeded, you wouldn't suffer the complication. Eg if you get to the top of the cliff in...

Fail Forward isn't one consistent thing. Different games have different implementations and often different conceptions of it in their...

Well I found it on DnD Beyond, and I didn't have to speak a special DM password to get access to it.

Huh? It's not fallacious to appeal to authority. Given that most of us are not geniuses, we rely on authorities for most of our...

Actually, I referred you to the rules for Burning Wheel. Which have been cited and discussed at great length in this thread. Including...

This pre-ordaining outcomes is an interesting topic. The conclusion in the ToD Adventure Path is a series of encounters at the Well of...

Here's a piece of GM advice from In A Wicked Age (p 10): Playing with details Whenever you describe something - describe your character...

Of course, the more you emphasise that the "H"s must be different, the more that cuts both ways. Situation A is quite different from...

It's not a thought experiment. It's a reflection on an approach to RPG play that has been advocated in this thread - eg by @Lanefan and...

But this assumes that absolutely every "lowlight" moment always informs the next highlight moment, and further that nothing except those...