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It's a weird one because if you ask me how I make character decisions then I'll say something like 'it just feels like what that...

I don't think plausibility works as a creative heuristic - that it's not useful to generate what could possibly happen. It is very...

On this point of emergence, I think the Narrativist play I am familiar with has a lot of this! In fact, it's hard to characterize it any...

Let's say there are no mechanics in play and what would have happened in the event of a Duel of Wits was instead handled with regard to...

While I generally agree with your approach (and do the same myself), I do want to point out few things: If you give them equal weight...

When it comes to finding meaning in a given moment of play in games like Apocalypse World, the reason I don't like taking a mechanic...

As I said in a post elsewhere, it's ridiculous to assume the GM will think of every possible result of an Impiricide or similarly large...

I think the degree/scale of potential moving pieces within @robertsconley ’s sandbox work is probably fairly distinctive, along with...

I personally didn't find Ravenloft all that great. It mostly demonstrates a lot of the weaknesses of trad play. I bought it, probably...

Let me caveat this with that I am not an expert in BW; I own it and have read it, but not played it. This is just my observations...

A 750-page thread built around arguing that GM-led sandboxing circa 1983 is some new or revelatory cutting edge rpg tech. I see where...

At least, outside of Ysgard. :)

I care. Because processes with non-unique outcomes are apt to generate unknowable outcomes - though that may depend on the nature of the...

I'm not sure what you mean by this. The "you" you appear to be addressing would seem to be me, @hawkeyefan, @AbdulAlhazred, maybe...

Just as an observation, AW and DW state as fundamental techniques the use of first person, addressing the characters, etc. along with...