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The idea that situations have a trajectory - implicit threats and promises - is fairly key to play in which "fail forward" is used. In...

Yeah that's an important clarification. Back then it didn't refer to what it refers to now.

"Fail forward" or "no whiffing" is a technique developed in the indie design space, to respond to what was seen as a couple of problems...

It was Luke Crane that coined it. I'm pretty sure I've read the thread where he did so but I'm not sure where it was, maybe storygames...

Jonathan Tweet is the link between 13th Age and Over the Edge. I don't get the impression that he coined the phrase just to use it in...

I suppose, at the end of the day, this is why things like morale rules don't apply to PC's. I believe that they should. I absolutely...

Not really. I don't see how rising action is to be analogised to a car. The latter is a machine, that has parts. Rising action or...

What encourages risk-taking is player knowledge that failure won't bring the trajectory of play - or the PC - to an end. "Fail forward"...

It is also called "no whiffing". And given the term is found in Over the Edge 20th anniversary edition, which is a 2012 publication...

How is it false? It’s literally the advice. Oh my god would you guys stop being so paranoid about people saying D&D is boring?

I can name you multiple RPGs that don't have PCs who adventure. Apocalypse World. Wuthering Heights. I believe Monsterhearts. I can...

4e D&D has Zovvuts (former angles that have become elemental-type demons). The angels of Mal Arundak have also become demons. So it...

As they are described as outsiders native to the Inner Planes, in my games, I would tend to categorize the Wind Dukes as Fey.

Granted their descriptions do vary to a certain extent, but both were large muscular humanoids from the early days. Wind Dukes could...

I guess my question is: what do you, or @Enrahim, feel that you do not understand about "fail forward" as an approach to resolution.