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Hang on, so now you're back to quoting some random website? I don't see why I should take it seriously as a guide to how to play RPGs.

Someone upthread asked what "fail forward" means, and what it looks like in play. I thought I would answer them. If you think they...

I quoted the relevant passages upthread. There is no "the rest", is there? (Not that you would ever accuse me of lying or manipulating...

I don't think you're lying. But you appear to use the D&D combat rules. That's enough for me to infer how versimilitudinous combat is. I...

Sure. That doesn't mean that it's a fallacy to believe them because of their expertise. I can tell you that drivers in Australia travel...

Huh? That's the authority I'm referring to. I read a book and listened to the teacher. I didn't perform any experiments involving...

Given that there are a billion RPGs out there that have various forms of simultaneous combat resolution, and that have versions of...

As it happens, I know some pretty serious pure mathematicians. They can tell me some things that I can (almost) make sense of. I...

I thought you said this: I have no evidence, other than the testimony of authorities, about the workings of radioactive decay, what some...

Because I referred to the Burning Wheel rulebooks as evidence of how Luke Crane - one of the designers who coined the notion "fail...

Uhm, a D20 is emulating a 50th of a D1000, and the D1000 would only be allowing you to trigger a secondary roll if you wanted to...

I'll go you one further. Once I started a Traveller game. I just told the players that their characters were on a small station. They...

This reinforces my point above about 4e SCs.

I'll just point out that skill challenges were maligned often, but they're a huge boon here! They allow for a mix of more and less...

Oh, come now. He's mostly just explicating what every successful game designer knows. If you want to know that sort of thing, why not...