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All this has been core to most of the RPGing I've done since the mid-1980s. On the assumption that not all of that RPGing counted as...

The funny thing is, after I read a couple of other posts I was kind of thinking the same thing. Plausibility really is a heuristic that...

But, I don't believe any GM does, or can do, this "plays the world without regard..." thing. No such possibility exists. And before you...

This is the internet, all we’re supposed to do is have strong opinions despite a lack of understanding or information! See you know, the...

I understand that it is not some wildly unreasonable proposition to say this. I'm not sure I think it is straightforwardly true either...

So, I think it is legitimate to discuss the process and the content of what those imaginings are, and what constitutes fiction that...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 -...

To me, it seems that you and some other posters are the ones fussing around definitions. I am talking about an actual phenomenon. When...

Well, maybe some custom moves aside, the GM 'says' the fiction. Some moves like Discern Realities or Spout Lore constrain the GM in...

I sure don't ignore it. Metagame is too important to the play experience.

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...