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This I think is why some people don't like fail forward. Your expectations of play are different. I know this seems obvious, but for...

Yeah, that post was just elaboration, not disagreement.

It probably matters more when your bar for putting people on it is relatively low; I've had a grand total of three people on mine since...

I'd argue it certainly can. Now, if you have a fairly spread out set of options there, and there's some discussion of assigning them in...

It also matters how often what you're looking for is even going to get checked for. If you've got a game that only makes the check that...

All I can say is I don't think so. If you're going to want to represent things that are as rare as we're talking about, throwing them...

Not sure that's true. Seems to me if you have something like the Chill 3e fail-forward (strong success/moderate success/weak...

It occurs to me that in the variable delay between payment and receipt of goods inherent in crowdfunding efforts, this thread might...

I'm afraid I'm going to have to say that it depends too much on genre and setting for me to answer generically. I know that's...

I'm not talking about CoC (though its not unrelated); I'm talking about games where a critical hit is potentially lethal. People still...

Again, only true if the first incoming arrow isn't potentially lethal. Presumably you could chose not to climb in the first place...

Perhaps you could keep it to the actual principles involved, rather than providing play examples that do a poor job of reflecting the...

"Always" makes some big assumptions about the combat system involved; not all of them have a slow pace of resolution.

Hard as it may be for you to get it, there are plenty of games where, within the range of events you've chosen to get into, the risk of...

I'd suggest that's a definitional issue; I'd certainly consider succeeding at what my character is trying to do winning, and I'd bet...