Recent content by Maxperson

So what. All you guys are showing is that the structure of the argument is logically sound, not that the argument is sound. DMs don't have an agenda of making things boring for the players.

All of which are incredibly unlikely. So unlikely to happen at the exact time the party gets there in a traditional game, as to not occur unless the DM has remembered the farrier and determined somehow that one of those things happened. You're still thinking like a narrative DM where very...

"If you don't have an agenda as GM that includes making the character lives' not boring you should not use fail forward." This seems like sophistry to me. Who has an agenda that includes making the characters lives boring? No DM that I've ever heard of. It implies that using fail forward is...

Why would I do that? I'm not running a narrative game. I'm not going to start inventing plots and such on the spot just because someone asked for the farrier. It wouldn't make sense for their to be no farrier. If there was some reason for the farrier to be absent, then I wouldn't have...

Maybe. There's no reason to assume that there are more servants involved with this. In a castle, sure, there are lots of servants and the cooks(plural) wouldn't be involved in serving most of the time. In a private residence, the cook is probably also the server.

Right. The DM would have to homebrew in one being louder than the other. It's not RAW that it is. If you feel the need to make a failed attempt louder for some reason(and I see no reason why it should be), then you can do so. It matters if you want the world to feel like it exists...

Holy failed assumptions Batman! Just because we don't use fail forward, does not mean that we want the PCs' lives to be boring. Those two things don't line up.

A player dictating how something outside of his character works for the world is authoring, yes. Whether you play that way or not doesn't change that. And I'm not saying it's bad. It's not "just play," though. Something that's "just play" would be generally true across RPGs and playstyles...

So the cook(not maid) would be up at 2:30am for some reason, but wouldn't be around to serve and prepare breakfast, lunch or dinner because they shouldn't be seen? 🤔

How dare you leave me out! ~ Captain Cook.

When it comes to wandering monsters the question is, is the monster going to go through that spot at that time, yes or no? We don't know yet. If the roll comes up yes, then that monster will be wandering past that spot at that time whether the players show up there or not. If the roll comes...

The player is not authoring it through the character, though. The player is authoring it outside of the game and then afterwards expressing it through the character. It's the player, not the character that is directly authoring new content for the world. Authoring new content through a...

There is in fact a difference. I came up with that town waaaaaaay before that session, so that's when the farrier was there, not during the session the player reminded me that I had forgotten to write it down. The difference is timing. Making it up when the player asks is creating it on the...