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title: 'Failure, repetition and revision'
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  Errors or rejection create opportunities to retry, revise a position or accept
  the consequences.
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    title: Potionomics
    url: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/1874490/'
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    updatedAt: '2026-10-22'
    title: 'Failure, repetition and revision'
    description: >-
      Errors or rejection create opportunities to retry, revise a position or
      accept the consequences.
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        Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Publisher-distributed
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      caption: A customer objects during negotiation
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      markers:
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          label: The customer considers the proposed price too high
    tips:
      - A refusal should inform another attempt or a different decision.
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  Original editorial design catalog consolidated from project discussions on
  2026-10-20. Complete discussion item lists and contextual limitations are
  preserved; linked primary sources support specific techniques, not the entire
  classification. English translation was prepared with machine assistance and
  editorial review.
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# Failure, repetition and revision

id: dialogue--family-failure
type: mechanic
key: mechanic/dialogue--family-failure
lang: en
status: active
url: https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/dialogue--family-failure/

Errors or rejection create opportunities to retry, revise a position or accept the consequences.

## At a glance

![A customer objects during negotiation](https://gamemechanics.pro/images/mechanics/dialogue-potionomics-02.webp)

[Potionomics](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1874490/) · Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Publisher-distributed Steam screenshot; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.

1. The customer considers the proposed price too high

- A refusal should inform another attempt or a different decision.

- [Potionomics](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1874490/)

## How it works

Mistakes and refusal of the interlocutor create conditions for retrying, correcting the position or accepting the consequences.

## Variants

### Variants and applications

<a id="family-failure-variants"></a>

- An irreversible attempt. Rule: An individual solution or test is allowed only once. <a id="variant-failure-01"></a>
- Free retry. Rule: The player can try the answer again without necessarily changing the conditions. <a id="variant-failure-02"></a>
- Repeat after preparation. Rule: A new attempt is opened after receiving a skill, evidence, help or other advantage. <a id="variant-failure-03"></a>
- Failure to continue. Rule: Failure advances the story with a complication or alternative objective. <a id="variant-failure-04"></a>
- Partial compromise. Rule: If the player is not completely successful, he receives part of what he wants on less favorable terms. <a id="variant-failure-05"></a>
- Recovery after an error. Rule: The player clarifies, recalls or corrects an unsuccessful remark as part of a conversation. <a id="variant-failure-06"></a>
- Rewind selection. Rule: The game provides an option to return to the previous decision while maintaining player control. <a id="variant-failure-07"></a>
- Knowledge from another cycle. Rule: Restart or time loop allows you to use information from a previous version of the conversation. <a id="variant-failure-08"></a>

## Context and limits

Author's working taxonomy compiled for this request. Titles are descriptive; sources confirm individual principles and examples, and not the entire list.

## Connected materials


## Sources and provenance

Original editorial design catalog consolidated from project discussions on 2026-10-20. Complete discussion item lists and contextual limitations are preserved; linked primary sources support specific techniques, not the entire classification. English translation was prepared with machine assistance and editorial review.

- [Potionomics](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1874490/) (id: source-478907b8b62d0628)

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