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I mean I don’t think the original quote applies to those OSR players who are focused on skilled play, and any story that shows up is...

Sure, if it's a CoC-type game, where people going nuts/dying is part of the genre, fine. Players approach the genre with genre...

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

Clearly there are many people for whom that if does not apply, yet many more for whom it does.

Why are we assuming the GM has not put any work into establishing stakes here? That they have telegraphed no dangers? Because if it's...

Sure, we can rp characters staying at home. Good game!

Everyone I know in 35 years of roleplaying together is looking for those things, yeah. There are other joys to be had too, but they are...

I was re-reading some fairly old V. Baker posts recently (I think I talked about this ages ago in this thread as well), and he notes...

1) Sure, a series of them...like in combat. Of course, even then, players can decide to retreat; I can't decide to not fall. 2) Any...

No, that's not quite right; it's a fallacy when one appeals to an authority that lacks expertise in the matter being discussed...like...

Character death due to arbitrary roll is not high-stakes, though; it's random crap. In fact, character death is the least imaginative...

It's a skill that needs to be developed and you are basically starting at square one as a GM. Experience running more conventional games...

Fail Forward isn't one consistent thing. Different games have different implementations and often different conceptions of it in their...

Well I found it on DnD Beyond, and I didn't have to speak a special DM password to get access to it.

The point can be made more analytically, I think. Let's suppose that there are three salient characters: H(ero), who is a player's...