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Yeah, while its particularly common in the D&D community, I've occasionally hit people who who've only played, say, FATE driven games...

Yeah. Kind of the price of the relatively insular game culture parts of D&D have produced.

I kinda misunderstood your previous post - I was agreeing with the idea that players not expecting / knowing of objective DCs for a hard...

I mean a) you're encouraged to figure out ways to get Advantage bestowed by the GM on stuff, b) the DCs in pretty much every published...

Im not telling you you're doing it wrong, I'm saying that every game I'm personally aware of which bakes fail-forward into its design...

Many of these... ...are good examples of fail forward, or partial successes/partial failures. Just FYI.

Except that this is about failing die rolls, not the premise of the campaign. They can still fail to stop the BBEG or evil ritual or...

Shouldn't teaching actually teach to keep trying after a failure? Which isn't something that usually isn't allowed in RPGs.

"Why can't they?" is not the same thing as "why should they?" And because there's a difference between momentary frustration and dead ends.

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...

I’m very glad that you cannot give Hope to other PCs. I think then it becomes this messy shared resource thing and individual...

Well, yes. I'm not talking about playing OSR or anything in its realm where "the solving of problems via player skill" is a significant...

This is contentious. In the way PCs are built - stats, feats, the components of a character's "race" - is heavily derived from 3E D&D...

I just recently re-read the first three books of the Nightrunner Series, every dang roguish moment either happens as narration (he...

When it comes to the classic inspirational literature, my gold standard for climbing urban walls to sneak into somewhere important is...