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    Star Wars Plot?

    I'm currently running F&D, and in this AU Darth Vader shoots down Luke at Yavin. So, Vader, with the help of the PCs, performs drastic steps to free himself from the Dark Side of the Force, restore the Jedi, and bring down the Galactic Empire, realizing that the Dark Side of the Force has lied...
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    A GMing telling the players about the gameworld is not like real life

    Non-sequitir. Replace "my narrative." All actual RPGs are narrative. Unless you have an actual physics machine (aka, hardcore sim system like Runequest or Aftermath!), it's essentially novel writing. The only differences between the storygame and sandbox approaches is the distribution of...
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    A GMing telling the players about the gameworld is not like real life

    By definitions, RPGs are narratives. Simulationism is inherently flawed because by defintion a GMs sandbox is their narrative about a world, not an actual world itself. Most notions of what people assume are "common sense" are simply collections of their own personal cultural biases...
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