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How is that unique to BW, or Narrativist play in general? In PbtA the game will spell out its aims and describe how the GM decides what...

Great. Now I feel compelled to write up stats for the monster under the bed. My players will not be happy.

At the very least Tomb of Horrors was designed to see if it could kill Robilar! That's more GM desires for the character though!

Such things have been sprinkled throughout D&D since days of yore, trust me. Dragon fear aura, various undead, other things here and...

Worlds Without Number asks the GM to create an adventure based on what players say the group wants to do the next session, with the...

I want to zoom in on the bolded part, as I think it's what's important here. How other games handle things is beside the point, just in...

It's about the game-ability of players acting as their characters, about being able to achieve outcomes through smart play of both the...

Read the first few sections of the 1e DMG! He talks a lot about the GM's responsibilities to the players in terms of providing them with...

And all the other examples? Like the legendary Warlord creature which can be any humanoid? The adventure NPC who can cause fear? Etc...

But we're only going to be able to really find out what the players can do and how they go about doing it by looking at the principles...

This is why I cited her posts/play style like 300+ or more pages ago trying to understand if what you and Robert do is aligned with...

But, that focus on the peripheral aspects of play and failing to understand what is central is exactly what leads us to doubt the nature...

Yes, I do get a sense that the "living world" ethos involves deliberately eschewing any sort of pathos or emotional dimension to play...

Maybe it's not rigorous?

Until 2028.