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[rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.
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I understand that it is not some wildly unreasonable proposition to say this. I'm not sure I think it is straightforwardly true either...
May 16, 2025
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So, I think it is legitimate to discuss the process and the content of what those imaginings are, and what constitutes fiction that...
May 16, 2025
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Here's an observation though about that. In @zakael19 example, I don't know how else you could do anything even similar to that scene...
May 16, 2025
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This is not at all your fault and I'm not blaming you, but Gygax used that word so often that it became super annoying to me. And now...
May 16, 2025
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To be fair, the "convince the Baron to help you" or whatever it is in the 4e DMG is probably the weakest example SC WOTC produced by...
May 16, 2025
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This is why I say that you do not seem to understand how BW works. You are talking about how likely something is based on some vision...
May 15, 2025
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Once again you attribute to me things that I didn't say. What I actually said was that agreeing to play a dungeon crawl, where -...
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To me, it seems that you and some other posters are the ones fussing around definitions. I am talking about an actual phenomenon. When...
May 15, 2025
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Well, maybe some custom moves aside, the GM 'says' the fiction. Some moves like Discern Realities or Spout Lore constrain the GM in...
May 15, 2025
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I sure don't ignore it. Metagame is too important to the play experience.
May 15, 2025
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Do you not think that a DW GM surprises players with what’s around the corner, or over the hill, or down through the dungeon? Like, say...
May 15, 2025
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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...
May 15, 2025
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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...
May 15, 2025
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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...
May 15, 2025
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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...
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