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I think @Campbell is referring to a case where the player fails the check and fail forward is adjudicated as successfully opening the...

Yes. What I will do is something like the following. The players decide to break into the wizard Alchaeus's tower. Alchaeus has two...

the difference is that in the trad example the cook's existence does not hinge on a failed roll, they exist in the house regardless, and...

Kind of amazing how an example designed to make fail forward look ridiculous makes it look ridiculous. A much more artful version of the...

This has always just looked like incomplete design to me. Surely you could just list the time it takes to perform the action and what...

In Shadowdark iirc the monsters all have darkvision, so the light doesn't help them see anything. They avoid it as a threat. In the...

Let's walk through the screaming cook scenario as I see it. The character's goal is to break into the estate to get a map. I'm assuming...

Fair enough. But man I struggle with the term color as it's been used in this thread. The NPC is there or they aren't, and that matters...

In the lock picking, fail forward case: success means you get in, no cook. Fail means you get in, cook. What you're describing changes...

That's a fair way to run things but it's not at all what the examples were about.

Sure, we can restrict it to "independent vs dependent". When you try to make less noise or lack care with light, you're doing something...

They should be encountered in the fiction. Then a skilled thief can use their stealth and misdirection to avoid them. "You're level 4...

I'm just going to redirect you to my previous posts as I feel they answered all of these objections. Virtuous DMing balances...

Because they avoid them skillfully, yes. Because there just happen to be no wanderers there? No.

Yes And no. This is explicitly more quantum than the other. In the wandering monster case, the events are independent--your skill at...