Failure and Successes

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Failure noun - The nonperformance of an assigned or expected action.

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Successes is an antonym for failure.

Nearby Words: fail, failing, failed

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Failure is an antonym for successes in favorable outcome topic.

Thankfully Revised Edition reduced this problem, as a botch required a 1 plus no successes at all (even if your successes are all cancelled by 1's, it's still just a failure).

Source: Critical Failure
On the topic of the Red Ribbon Army, their definition of failure is... well, just say that anything even slightly wrong is a failure, sometimes with the successes expected.

Source: You Have Failed Me
Whether they're critical failures or successes is up to the parameters of the roll (so if you needed a 40 or lower to succeed a roll, 44 is a critical failure).

Source: Critical Failure

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