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I think that skill at lockpicking also includes how fast and how quietly you can pick a lock... these things are an important component...

The "failure" is the metagame result of not meeting the target number, not so much the narrative result. I just thought of another fun...

I mean, I think trying to GM scenes such that "everything makes sense" is kind of the point! Much like rolling an encounter on a table...

Daggerheart defines it like this FAILING FORWARD In Daggerheart, every time you roll the dice, the scene changes in some way. There is...

That's why there's usually multiple things that can happen in a fail forward, not just "noise."

What really “fails forward” IMO is the scene and the fiction. It’s not “fail succeed,” it’s a conscious avoidance of “nothing happens.”

Because this doesn't move the game along or provide an interesting consequence. It's merely punitive. Or worse, if the thief had checked...

With the qualifier that there is no objective "makes sense", yes. The lengthy discussion of a single example has largely overridden the...

Yep. I, personally, can't square "I want the setting to feel like it exists" with "Rolling a cook on an encounter table, instead of...

If that is the case, doesn’t the fail-forward GM have exactly the same amount of latitude to decide that the consequence of the failure...

Or to ask an even broader question, could you enjoy a trad-style game if you knew the DM was just making everything as they want along...

When I run any of my games right now, if a PC “fails” a roll the first question in my head is: given the fictional circumstances and...

There might be any number of reasons why a failed roll to pick a lock might be heard by someone in the room next to the kitchen...

For sure. The bulk of the issue is that a large subset of players don't like the idea that the GM is just "making things up"; they...

An adventure normally intends for players to achieve certain objectives, even if in a nonlinear, sandboxy, way. So, while "fail...