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The sensible thing for Luke to do would not have been to listen to the old wizard and go off to try and save the princess. Instead, he...

I think we should be careful to avoid confusing playing game as game with playing game as game in the way we are used to. Scene framing...

I do not think that games like Monsterhearts or Apocalypse World expect you to play irrational characters. I think they expect you to...

If you look through the first couple of pages of this thread, you'll see plenty of examples of this usage.

Even more specifically: it's not left there dangling as a sentence and a "ok cool, figure out how to do this." It's defined with...

Apocalypse World works around a soft move/hard move structure. Burning Wheel works around intent + task resolution. These are ways of...

Of course. I quoted Edwards talking about pages detailing military hardware. I drew the analogy to Warhol's Sleep. I have repeatedly...

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"...