Do you like to lose?

[HarrisPS]

@S_Missions

What choice is that? I haven’t come across one, and I’ve played it several times. So far as I remember, there’s only one competition (the jungle trek) and there’s a way to win.

It’s this one, I believe. I’ve added another option in my local version which will go up at some point; when I do my draft revisions it’s something I’m going to check through - the four-option choice sets that test opposed stats don’t tend to have overlap, which means someone with bad luck has a small chance of not having any of the required stats above/below 50.

@ParrotWatcher

My problem is when a game is balanced so that a single bad choice will put you onto a “failure path” where you’re not rewarded for the success, and so fail the next stat check, so don’t get the rewards for that and eventually you end up with the bad ending, purely because of one bad choice early on.

Agreed, this can really feel miserable!

@Eiwynn

If it is “failure” due to a random die roll, I get angry with those, again, the exception being a well executed plot feature.

I think this makes a lot of sense. My experience doing choices that include die rolls in non-ChoiceScript games is that you have to make it very clear how difficult the choice is to succeed before taking the choice - I’m thinking of something like Fallen London or the Sunless games - because if you don’t, it feels unjust and you also lose the excitement of succeeding at a near-impossible roll.