The Importance of Owning the Failure

If you've got a good tri-fail cycle, it's a good story. The other thing that you can do to help make sure that your tri-fail cycles don't feel forced is to make sure that they're accomplishing more than one thing. That risk of drilling into a project I'm currently in the middle of, when we designed the Planet Mercenary Roleplaying game, I wanted to make sure this was a roleplaying game that had tri- fail cycles in it. This was like reading good novels, which brings it all back around.