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Also, who is her father? There's also the other Elven PC, Telemere, whose enemy is his brother, Kalamere (or Calamere? - this might be...

Yes, but you're missing the key point here, real world examples are irrelevant. This is not the real world, it is some fiction invented...

It's totally different! Trust me, I've played this kind of thing every which way. What you get in Narrativist play is far more directly...

Can we please speak only in terms of specific games or a specific arrangement of play? This is not the play loop of Apocalypse World...

But, in, say, a Dungeon World game I might run, where do my players lack any freedom to do something that is present in your game? I...

Sure, OTOH I trust players to play with integrity. Why is one side of the screen privileged? I feel like this stems back to some...

It feels a little clunky, but I am not going to put up a lot of objections to this kind of language, if it is used carefully.

I wish I could find some. When we talked in Forge terms, which don't reference agency at all, we also got bashed! I'm not hostile to the...

I'm simply pointing out that there are ways that work which are not Dave's ways, and the underlying point was that I was impressed by...

IMHO it was replaced by WotC with a unified 3e design precisely because it had become unmanageable. 2e had reached a point of...

Very interesting! I had never really considered the artistic aspect, at least explicitly. I think most GMs with much experience can...

We've gone back and forth on this in the 'GM fiat - an illustration' thread. A brief primer for those who didn't read it. A) Are...

Well, I don't think it would happen exactly like that, but it might. The description would probably be more specific, like say in...

And this is something that came up often in the discussions Rob and I have been part of on sandboxes. I don't think either of us would...

I think you can approach both as if they are real, or as if they are settings in service to play. But I do think when you prioritize a...