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I've posted numerous examples over the whole course of this thread. I can tell you what Harper is saying. I anticipate I will then be...

No protagonists? Do you just mean characters? So a cook is very likely to be found in a kitchen, right? But the cook will not spend...

A random website is not an experience. It's just a random website. When I was 12, I designed and GMed a really boring dungeon. Would...

I posted actual examples, in reply to you. Here they are again:

You keep pointing to an example where the consequence - the screaming cook - has not been telegraphed, has not been expressly or...

Someone upthread asked what "fail forward" is/looks like. Given that Luke Crane is one of those who coined the concept, it seems to me...

Perhaps you could keep it to the actual principles involved, rather than providing play examples that do a poor job of reflecting the...

You are no longer arguing the same thing. The argument was about death through a random roll, not player choice. I said myself that...

Sure. Some play games with death by a random dice roll. Fun!

Exactly. It can be a fallacy if your electrician starts expounding upon your plumbing.

This is like something I do in Baldur's Gate 3, where I am always aware of video game logic and the investment is therefore lower; now...

Everyone I know in 35 years of roleplaying together is looking for those things, yeah. There are other joys to be had too, but they are...

Why are we assuming the GM has not put any work into establishing stakes here? That they have telegraphed no dangers? Because if it's...

Sure, we can rp characters staying at home. Good game!

I was re-reading some fairly old V. Baker posts recently (I think I talked about this ages ago in this thread as well), and he notes...