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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Balesir" data-source="post: 6799828" data-attributes="member: 27160">I think the subtle distinction, here - which what you say here does nothing to dispel the ambiguity about - is the idea that the same cliff appears at differing heights depending on nearby PCs. This is not what 4E involves in any instance of it I have experienced.The actual case is much more akin to the "timed authorship" point that [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION] has explained and [MENTION=177]Umbran[/MENTION] has expanded on. If the "combat situation" includes a cliff, and the first party to encounter this combat happen to be first level, then the cliff may be authored at that point to be 20' tall. If the party were 20th level, the cliff might be 160' tall. Once "authored in", however, the cliff is the height it is. If a 1st level party somehow engineer a fight beside that cliff once it is established at 160', then they may very well die as a result.On the distinction about "fail forward" meaning different things in different playing (or, I think more to the point, GMing) styles, I think you have a good point. "Fail forward" may very well be a cluster of techniques, some of which are useful for any given style. On the other hand, I am pretty sceptical about any "purist" approach to pre-authoring. I think most likely every GM has some things s/he authors on the fly - NPC intentions regarding the characters and dispositions being particularly common ones; details of the "small furnishings" in a room being another. I think it's more a matter of degrees than pure approaches.I think a useful question as regards pre-authoring might be "what things are most usefully pre-authored, and what things are better authored in response to game situations as they develop?", rather than "what type of authoring is best*, pre-authoring or authoring-in-the-moment?"(*: or even "do you prefer").</blockquote>

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