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"Optimizing the fiction" to shape the outcome range is definitely part of what I see as fiction-first gameplay, for the games that bring...

Thanks for elaborating! And it's awesome that you encountered a situation in which a timber hitch was called for. To this day I've never...

Then I take back that it was logical cause and effect. :p I think failure on a check is bad enough (especially when bad things should...

So for some initial clarity: meaningfulness is something that the participants in a game experience. Then, when we talk about managing...

I don't disagree with your assesment of many of the posts in this thread. My response was intended to be limited to your specific...

Yes. Some minor nitpick. With "recommendable" I meant it might be something that it might be possible to formulate a recommendation to...

I'd be ok with the more-specific emphasis on preventing a game stall. I'm curious, though, if that's too specific a purpose from the...

I want to call out a few properties this example is having that the (silly) example that has been discussed before have, that can be...

Rather than characterize Fail Forward as a "recommendable principle in traditional play - with a lower priority than the principle of...

Very true! But I don't think that's pertinent to my argument. A subsequent roll to avoid alerting Thoth doesn't have "nothing happens"...

Your examples indeeed aren't quite what I had in mind. The archetypical situation I'm thinking of is where the players proactively...

They can set up the fiction any way they like but unless my character's an idiot he's going to do what he can to manipulate that fiction...

The assertion that simulationism is strictly mechanical doesn't seem right to me, although I understand the tradition that informs it...

Good to hear this. My question then becomes, what can the character do in the fiction to get things to the point where if he fails on...

Your use of 'legal' suggests a specific frame by which to judge. There's no reason why we should accept that. If someone buys the legal...