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The cook being startled is not unrelated to the failed attempt at burglary.

Right. I have tried to address this in my posts to @FrogReaver. "Fail forward", to work, depends upon other "infrastructure" of play...

I meant a one-way relationship. There are obviously different methods to making the characters' lives not boring. One way just to have...

Not having an agenda of make the player characters' lives not boring is not the same as having an agenda of making the player...

If there is no standard of fidelity by which the portrayal is to be judged, then it makes no sense to say the portrayal is faithful...

Would you say a bit more about this?

What does it mean to represent a chance? The PCs are travelling through <wherever>. It has a certain population density, and those...

I was replying to @The Firebird, who (at least as I understood things) used the word "gamist" in the sense of playing for...

I'm not familiar with the Anthology Engine, just the In A Wicked Age rulebook. My comment about talking is based on this from p 12...

Everyone knew every all the different characters goals, so similar to IAWA in that respect. I do actually think IAWA uses dice to...

This seems right to me, and seems pretty close to what @AbdulAlhazred posted upthread about Discern Realities, looking for something...

@FrogReaver, I am not sure where you are hoping to go with this. If you are trying to work out whether or not your D&D play is...

Here's another well-known game procedure: the Gm asks the player something about the world, and the player answers. I expect that...

The reason why the lock pick attempt might be louder on a failed roll is very simple; it’s because one way to fail at lockpicking would...

Here is my perspective on this: I have done a lot of pretty hardcore simulationist RPGing. Mostly using RoleMaster, but also using...