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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7055577" data-attributes="member: 996">I wondered about that, too.&nbsp; I figured that it must have been a matter of finding a vessel /before/ the decapitated corpse had bled out to the point that blood couldn't be caught in it.&nbsp; (Perhaps because, for some arcane reason, blood collected with a sponge didn't count? &quot;What? C'mon, 5-second rule!&quot;)&nbsp;Nuth'n.&nbsp; Builds character(npi).&nbsp; Kids these days could do with some more character.But, what is bad is when your session grinds to an ignominious halt because someone failed just the wrong check, at just the wrong time, and the players are left shuffling around, going &quot;whadda we do now?&quot; &quot;I dunno, whadda you wanna do?&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Go back to town for a beer, I guess, world can save itself this time, 'cause we got nuth'n.&quot;&nbsp;Fail-forward /is/ straight-out failure, it's just failure of the character's action, not failure of the DM's game.Even a really horrible failure, with a really horrible consequence, could move things forward.It does, however, strike me as not so different from the kinds of techniques that'd get called 'illusionism' or 'railroading...'</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7055577, member: 996"] I wondered about that, too. I figured that it must have been a matter of finding a vessel /before/ the decapitated corpse had bled out to the point that blood couldn't be caught in it. (Perhaps because, for some arcane reason, blood collected with a sponge didn't count? "What? C'mon, 5-second rule!") Nuth'n. Builds character(npi). Kids these days could do with some more character. But, what is bad is when your session grinds to an ignominious halt because someone failed just the wrong check, at just the wrong time, and the players are left shuffling around, going "whadda we do now?" "I dunno, whadda you wanna do?" "Go back to town for a beer, I guess, world can save itself this time, 'cause we got nuth'n." Fail-forward /is/ straight-out failure, it's just failure of the character's action, not failure of the DM's game. Even a really horrible failure, with a really horrible consequence, could move things forward. It does, however, strike me as not so different from the kinds of techniques that'd get called 'illusionism' or 'railroading...' [/QUOTE]

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