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Ugh, bad design. This is why AD&D turned into a hot mess. Just say no.

I'm not speaking to your description of living world stuff here. My entire post was directed entirely towards your description of...

Both. If the GM inclines to say "yes", the player is at liberty to explain why a roll should be made. If the GM is calling for a roll...

I think you're overreacting a bit, but mainly I'm struck by the notion of a 'narrative constraint'. I am not sure what those are.

I'd argue that's applying some concepts of verisimilitude to genres and settings where they don't work, at least as normally applied. I...

There's been a LONG history of debate as to how arbitrary and contrived (I never used this term) 'sim' play is, or isn't. If you missed...

On contrivance: at some point setting and scenario design needs to happen. Within the constraints of what is possible there will be a...

Here we part ways, lol. DW is super fit to purpose, though I think AW and several others are actually better. The virtue of DW is the...

I’ve just chalked his posts down as coming from an alternate reality, since pretty much everything shared is like totally opposite or...

So, seems loaded to me, because I expect most of us don't experience much, or any, player ranting. We have pretty low key interactions...

This is why I've made repeated comparisons between Roberts play and my own and have pointed out how those exact preconditions created a...

Hang on a sec - you've participated in many of these sorts of threads for quite a while now - such as this one <D&D General - What is...

Agreed, living world as envisaged by @robertsconley certainly does not preclude play that is Narrativist in fashion. There tend to be...

@robertsconley Baker recently posted about revisiting Narrativism (which is distinct from whatever a "narrative RPG" is and good god...

My response to this is similar to what @thefutilist has posted: when I play (say) Burning Wheel, or Torchbearer, or Prince Valiant, or...