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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8382591" data-attributes="member: 177">Speaking generally, not about BitD..We can add to that how the GM is usually constrained to not directly negate the intent of player success.&nbsp; Say a character is trying to sneak into somewhere, and gets a &quot;success with complications&quot; result.&nbsp; It is really bad form (or outright prohibited) for the GM to say, &quot;You sneak past the guards but there are cameras that you didn't know about, so you are seen anyway.&quot;&nbsp; The player's intent was pretty clearly to enter unnoticed, and they got a success result - the GM can't turn that into failure.In Fate, there's effectively a mingling that doesn't have to do with failures.&nbsp; If the GM Compels a character, they are invoking an Aspect that's already in play (on the scene, or on the character's sheet) against them.&nbsp; The narrative Checkov's Gun is lurking, and the GM is mechanically bound to invoke it, rather than make something completely new up.&nbsp; The effect is that if the GM is going to make a character's life more complicated, it must be in a way that is narratively relevant.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 8382591, member: 177"] Speaking generally, not about BitD.. We can add to that how the GM is usually constrained to not directly negate the intent of player success. Say a character is trying to sneak into somewhere, and gets a "success with complications" result. It is really bad form (or outright prohibited) for the GM to say, "You sneak past the guards but there are cameras that you didn't know about, so you are seen anyway." The player's intent was pretty clearly to enter unnoticed, and they got a success result - the GM can't turn that into failure. In Fate, there's effectively a mingling that doesn't have to do with failures. If the GM Compels a character, they are invoking an Aspect that's[I] already in play[/I] (on the scene, or on the character's sheet) against them. The narrative Checkov's Gun is lurking, and the GM is mechanically bound to invoke it, rather than make something completely new up. The effect is that if the GM is going to make a character's life more complicated, it must be in a way that is narratively relevant. [/QUOTE]

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