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Potentially, yes. There are many things it might depend on. That fact that someone who is unhappy with the effect at a certain rate of...

What some of us find implausible (not impossible) is that something interesting happens every time you roll the dice. We can also find...

When good narration would be "nothing happens" and nothing happens isn't allowed, bad narration is all you've got left.

Hmm. The outcome isn't fixed; that's why you roll the dice. But the world is fixed. I posted a similar example from Blades a month ago...

Whether that is true or not is irrelevant. @The Firebird was talking about how the mechanic makes them feel. They never claimed that...

But if you run a game where it's OK to not find out what's behind the door or in the compartment (which I typically do), then you can...

Have you read, for example, 5e's skill system? Like many of it's predecessor's its focus is on specific task resolution. That does not...

I don't see it as necessarily being poor design, though. When I design a dungeon-type adventure, unless I'm intentionally designing...

I answered that. There could always be a ticking clock, the friend dies if you don't get there in time. But the cause of the death is...

So your argument is that we're lying?

Are they? You've looked at every sandbox ever made, including the homebrew ones, and determined this is the case all the time? It's...

It's bending over backwards when a) the "something interesting" is clearly contrived just for that purpose and otherwise makes no...

For me, knowing how the decisions are made makes them feel contrived. Even if the outcome is reasonable I know that nothing is fixed...

For me it's about general approach. Nobody thinks D&D (or any other RPG that I know of) is a particularly good simulation of the real...

IMO. Fail forward usually invalidates some premises of traditional play. Things like: Success is completing the task not some...