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@pemerton just to share Daggerheart's specific guidance for your note, it calls the "narrating failure as your PC sucking ass" out under...

I swear to god we talked about how a simple “pass/fail” lock pick isn’t a worthy example for “fail forward” techniques absent stakes...

I posit that for those that it matters, there’s a distinction in quantum existence and quantum chance to appear.

Oh man, wait until you hear about Yahtzee.

I don’t think that’s true. The cook may not be statted or planned previously, but it exists as a concept just like the millions of...

You missed my favorite one of all - the Ouija board.

I suspect that's why I'm okay with it for spells and not weapons. Or it might be, because magic. Either way I recognize the...

Well, it’s from 1e, so it’s probably fine. :)

I agree, assuming we're talking about a binary d20 sort of game. I don't think "partial success" or "success with complications" or...

In fail forward the dice aren’t deciding the cook is there. The dm is. All the dice decide is that some complication is occurring while...

Naw, I'm not offended (we're talking about TTRPGs on the internet and you're not telling me I suck at running the game I've been devoted...

MHP is pretty good about balancing (the folks there are intense about math) and the classes end up almost underpowered, if anything. My...

Unless the rules say otherwise, of course. Or are you saying those rules are wrong?

It would have been great if an experienced Burning Wheel GM had been posting for the past many pages that "fail forward" is a label for...

People are responding as if the people who are taking exception to the fail forward example are trying to sell them on fail forward as...