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Call it what you want, but I have never seen a table benefit from spot nerfing or revenge fudging.

I think we can take it that the cook screaming is a hard move. So let's reason back - what player-side move failed, such that the cook...

You can see more of my thoughts in the post just above. "Fail forward" is primarily the idea that nothing happens is not a permissible...

You got a reply to this from @Old Fezziwig. I've also posted about this in many posts in this thread, including some in reply to you...

So, the way I tend to view the listed GM Moves in any given game is that these are the things that you explicitly have the authority to...

Absolutely! I played in a 2d20 game of Star Trek Adventures for a bit. I'm not a big Trek fan, so I wasn't crazy about the game... but...

I think it's a huge mistake to cast GM Moves as just what GMs do. I know that a lot of us kind of intuitively picked up scene framing...

The comment I responded to wasn't about causation. It was about the lockpicking attempt having "nothing to do with the cook". Here is...

I don't see why not. That seems like a good move in a skilled play game.

So that's similar to what was called "competitive play" back in the day.

I don't think that @pemerton is using a different definition of fail forward. I think that it can be used in a variety of ways, and...

Yes, actually. Those priorities, though, I have found, are better served through video games like Baldur's Gate, or campaign games like...

Of course it's tragic in the real world; no idea what you're trying to do by pointing out something so obvious, but sure, yeah, ok. In...

I wanted to take a moment to show why it's important to look things through the prism of a game's intended GM and player roles when...

Because no one is challenging the preference. Please seethe bolded below. This is what’s getting push back. He’s not just stating a...