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That's... entirely not the point here.

Ah, so you think that improvisation is the same as cheating.

Sure, ok, here: think of it as like a Handle Animal roll with Aided Advantage, and the ability to idk drop a Hit Dice analogue to pay a...

No, because PbtA is not a system which requires Fail Forward! It is perfectly OK for a 6- to simply be "you failed, AND <bad thing X>...

I think running DH like classic story-forward 5e is ignoring most of the GM best practices, moves, and principles. Upside: you’ll still...

yea but it's best practices based on fiction-first gaming and the book's own text and that he often fails to do it is not a great...

Here's two examples from play of the sort of "Fail Forward" that I've previously defined (the scene changes on a roll), and that...

Oh, no! Someone used an older name for a technique! The HORROR!

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...

That isn't a point of contention. Nobody thinks you actually secretly want to do it. The points of contention seem to be whether the...

The better way to look at it is on a successful roll, things go well, on an unsuccessful roll, things go poorly.

NO SPOILERS!!!! How much Mercer contributed to the design is up for debate. He is listed among half a dozen "additional designers" and...

My favorite line on a 7-9 (success but complicated) is the roughly “the GM will present you with a lesser success, cost, complication...

One, picking the lock in a fail forward game is generating the result fully using a mechanic. Two, a random table is the most...

The point of "make it some other complication" isn't trying to sell you on it. It's to address the faulty way the technique is being...