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My apologies. I presumed, totally inappropriately, that you were participating in a conversation, rather than shouting into the void. As such, I now know any further interaction is completely pointless.

Entirely separate from the (IMO spurious) one-true-way accusations, what exactly is gained from this? I'm not saying you should somehow warp every law and concept of reality--if the player herself puts her things at risk, that's her fault. But what is gained about having such a cavalier...

I mean it literally did. We can, quite clearly, see a massive bump. That means people had to subscribe, at least for a time. Given the HUGE gap immediately after the spike--and missing the 5.5e DMG spike to boot!--I genuinely don't think anything meaningful can be concluded from this at all...

I mean it was very clear from the first like three or four posts that people were concluding "5.5e has failed to do its job, people are abandoning the game" and other such. Some see that as doom-and-gloom. Others see it as something to celebrate. Still others couldn't care less. But it was quite...

I have yet to see any example provided of where "Fail Forward"--as actually used by real people playing an actual game, not a hypothetical invented by its critics who neither know nor play any of the systems where such a thing is formally spelled out--results in the thing you describe. The...

Of course you know what you meant to say. I can only go by what you actually said, and the context in which that statement occurred. It's quite clear, now, that you meant something rather different from the words you used--particularly given the context around the word "perfectly", which...

Within the limits stated--values-system and limited information--that is precisely what I understood it to mean. Every person must be a perfect logic engine. That logic engine is permitted to break down in exclusively (their word, not mine) two cases: when their values-system forces a...

I welcome a clarification....and yes, when someone is ranting and uses the phrase "exclusively perfectly", I'm going to assume they in fact do mean perfectly--especially when responding to someone else who had already said "the most...possible". Context clues made it seem quite obvious that that...

I don't understand what "leaving a sting with the party" means, so I can't respond to this. As for the argument, you're asking me to do something I literally cannot do. Fail Forward is specifically meant for the times when the common approach breaks down. This is like telling me to only make...

As critical as I am of D&D 5e, this doesn't tell us anything. Any time there's a big change, there will always be a huge spike and then a falloff. That's just how things work. Notice, for example, that the recent low point is still ~1800, while the (presumptively) non-spike high point at the...

I have, perhaps, a slightly-more-useful demonstration case for a "Fail Forward" situation. The party is chasing someone, say an assassin. They know this is their target, but the target is very fast and might get away. So, they try various things to get to the assassin. They roll very poorly...

I would take this more seriously if the rest of the context did not imply otherwise. Such as the word "exclusively", or the fact that TwoSix had specifically said, "It's hard to create an interesting story around a character who always makes the most rational, pragmatic decision possible." That...

I'm not the one who demanded perfection! They specifically used that word, perfect. I did not introduce that. They did.

"Things shouldn't hit a dead end" is a motive for FF. It is not what FF is. "Children should know how to read" is a motive for public schooling; it is not what public schooling is. A given attempt at/implementation of public schooling may or may not fulfill any given motive; any given motive may...

It is, though. Once you have a values-system and input information, nothing but perfect rationality within those bounds is acceptable. Period. That's...literally the message being made. No one can do as I did when I was like thirteen and did a foolish thing that could have hurt my sibling...

It's a bit shy of 590k words in English translations (it varies but we'll shoot for a higher value to be sure). If an average page has at least a thousand words, we've already exceeded it. Of course, some pages are very short in this thread, but some are not. Any page where I have more than one...

Okay. But if it is a classic realism argument... And numerous people in this thread are making realism arguments (often substituting other words which are, themselves, an attempt to avoid saying "realism" while still really just being realism in a trenchcoat) about their characters... Where...

No, I am not. Bolded for emphasis: This was in response to someone else saying: IOW, Enrahim was saying "characters need to always make the most rational, pragmatic decision possible", because anything else is bad. Hence, characters need to be played such that they always make the most...

The core problem is that a LOT of people hate PrCs. Like their hatred is genuinely comparable to AM's hatred in I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. Even something that smells just a little too much like them will raise hackles. Anything that actually is in the same mechanical space, especially...

But no one is talking about that. Genuinely. Not one person talking about these rules has even suggested that. What makes you think anyone has?