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Does it construct it as "evolving" or "complicating"? Its an important difference. As I mentioned regarding Chill, a failure that...

Well, there's also the issue that unless you're playing over in a hardcore "everything is done with description" system, there are...

First off, I'm not sure there are as many of those as you're implying. I think a pretty fair number are looking for "I get what I want...

Like a lot of what goes on in the OSR, what they put priority on varies considerably; its why I try and be fairly specific when I...

I think you're missing that to some people "This roll does nothing and is boring" is still superior to "If I make this roll something...

Of course part of that is the hostility in much of the OSR to mechanics substituting for player decision-making, but there's nothing...

I kind of do think of that as "cinematic" when it happens frequently--the word "frequently" is important here. "Cinematic" is relevant...

Well, there are a couple of ways to handle that that still matter: 1. You can, of course, simply assume the healing is done as long as...

Well, part of the problem is that sometimes there's process where failure is providing information that may be desirable for changing...

I think you're not quite understanding what I'm talking about. Most rolls in most games can, and probably with at least some of its...

Its a perceptual gap; in many respects PbtA games are trying to represent cinematic fiction, and in cinematic fiction things go at least...

Within the context of this thread people were making points about roleplaying games in general (that is what brought me to this thread...

The GM, who is presumably using a system that has nonhuman options, should have figured out how they work in the setting in the first...

Oh, I'm aware. I just think some people, particularly in the PbtA adjacent sphere, don't understand how much the baked in "complication...

It's fine to disagree. But I'm not calling anything the "one true way", I'm defining my own usage of the terms. Which I said myriad...