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This is like saying that, if you succeed on your to hit and damage roll in D&D, and thus reduce the Orc's hp to zero, the GM decides...

What about the barter? This s not just a throw-away difference. It's fundamental!

Right. I posted an example from my own play way upthread: post 3218. This reminded me of the old White Dwarf Traveller scenario The...

All I'm saying is that, if you want to see how "fail forward" might be used in 5e D&D, @hawkeyefan has provided some examples.

The player acted on their hope. The rules were applied to work out whether or not it is fulfilled Huh? That's not accurate at all. The...

But this isn't true. It's possible to play narrativist using actor stance almost exclusively. I've done this, using AD&D and...

I was talking about an episode of my play, not yours. And the other posters I referred to were commenting on that episode of my play...

I don't know. There have been a lot of posts about how Apocalypse World and Burning Wheel work from "trad-leaning posters", but many of...

This guy hopes his PC can kill the Orc. He rolls and is successful, and so the Orc is dead as he wanted. Or . . . This guy hopes that...

This is too confused, as an account of authorship of a novel, for me to make sense of. I simply reiterate that it is possible, and...

When I read this, I see a description of GM-driven play.

Yes, I know - you said he was practising components of those other spells and working on combining them to create the new spell. My...

I was the GM, so I can tell you why I introduced a Strange Runes Scene Distinction: because I thought it would be fun and interesting. I...

As I've already posted, my friend and I can all get together and choose to raffle something that one of us owns. That would be a lottery...

A lot of stuff just doesn't seem to 'come off' in trad play. So, for instance, the highly technical Ocean's Eleven style of heist, where...