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And yet, you have zero problem with dice determining every single other element of the game. It tells you how good a warrior you are...

I curse the name of the person that taught you what a Red Herring is. No, because on a success, the thief was quiet enough to not draw...

So, the context for make the character's lives not boring is Apocalypse World instructing the GM to have every decision they make be in...

Just from conversing with them over the years, I know @pemerton and @Manbearcat are often in agreement but also have different styles of...

Yes. That's why I referred to a bowdlerised version of "fail forward" that involves "the GM narrating failure in such a way as to keep...

Why do you say this? I mean, it's not as if the rulebook fails to tell us what is meant! And it's not what you say here.

Wait... you don't?!!?

So, stop engaging about it? If you aren't interested, just drop the topic?

Such as what? It depends on so many factors. There’s not one answer. You use your creativity combined with whatever has been established...

I don't know what to tell you. I'm making a creative choice in the moment, constrained by the established fiction, but not only the...

Something different that is consistent with what's been established, follows from the lockpicking fiction and the GM thinks would be...

Isn’t that the same for the folks who live in the home being broken into? Something else? Something that makes sense based on the context?

Something that fits the fiction. What's your example scenario?

Doesn't a DM who posits a healthy, functional "wealthy person's country estate" necessarily posit the existence of the many, many...

Yeah, I love when stuff like that happens. Why do you consider one "just popping into existence" but the others are present and...