{"id":376,"date":"2006-06-23T08:46:10","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T08:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=376"},"modified":"2006-06-23T08:46:10","modified_gmt":"2006-06-23T08:46:10","slug":"once-again-failure-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2006\/06\/once-again-failure-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Once again: Failure = Fun?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Narrator Advice - Failure is Always An Option: Character Defeat is Player Victory Too\" href=\"http:\/\/glorantha.com\/support\/na_defeat.html\">Failure is Always An Option: Character Defeat is Player Victory Too<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The biggest benefit of failure being entertaining for players, is that they can stop worrying about try to play to win, and instead concentrate on playing their characters in a way that&#8217;s entertaining. This is how HeroQuest facilitates heroism &#8211; not with Hero Points there to save the character&#8217;s bacon, that doesn&#8217;t work a remarkable amount of the time &#8211; it&#8217;s loving failure as much as victory that drives players to have their Heroes act, well, like heroes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Failure is Always An Option: Character Defeat is Player Victory Too The biggest benefit of failure being entertaining for players,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}