Manbearcat
Legend
This thread is incredible.
Phase 1: No no, narrative and narrativist are the exact same thing, stop being so nitpicky.
Phase 2: Well I don't know about narrativism specifically but I think narrative games as a whole are like this.
Phase 3: Narrativism doesn't exist
Phase 4: <Ignore concrete definitions given repeatedly of terms for a decade, make conversation utterly intractable and muddled, then blame those you've conversed with for more than a decade for the intractable and muddled nature of the ongoing conversation...and make sure to strategically forget all the ridiculous TTRPG jargon you've internalized for decades...the kind of stuff in both magnitude and wonkitude that would make a casual outsider's head spin>
Phase 5: Ok, Narrativism does exist, but, despite me having no experience of any consequence, I'm going to assert complete nonsense both vaguely and about specific games (games you've run on the order of 100s to 1000s of hours worth of table time) that has no connection to reality...oh, and I'll assert those things with all the confidence in the world!
Phase 6: Narrativism doesn't exist and you're elitist/jerk/pretentious (etc etc etc...the kind of crap you'd only say to strangers on the internet)