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And this, right here, is one of the things I find extremely frustrating about discussing game design. Note your comparison: literature...

I didn't really have a problem with his lightshow either. I might have made it a bit less complicated, but conceptually it's OK.

I think the issue here is the difference between simple task adjudication and Narrativist 'fiction resolution'. Even in AW I'd like to...

I can't speak for others, but what I want is clear stakes. I want to know what I'm risking, what the potential rewards are, and how the...

It's not, and it illustrates a much more common pattern in Narrativist play. Hino sees a bunch of peasants being driven into an assault...

No, it isn't. And as for 'pretty much every topic in existence' being in dispute, I heartily disagree. Most things are settled matters...

Well, I'm certainly no expert on QM, but my understanding of the state of the field is that Einstein's reservations have yet to be...

Nope: you may be attempting to articulate the Appeal to Authority fallacy, but you have it wrong. Appeal to Authority is a fallacy when...

Sure, but that doesn't make consulting an expert, or accepting the opinions of one on a matter in their field, as a fallacy, or foolish...

That seems a bit odd to me. Like, an SC could be a 500 mile overland trek, or it could be haggling with a dragon. Like, granted larger...

Well, there's room for some dice. The GM could rule that the Discern Realities move was triggered. A Defy Danger could be rolled, say...

I can see that. From my perspective, I would say that for more narrative play, setting a character goal and and trying to achieve it...

Sorry, I think you're making a mountain out of a mole hill. First of all players are always free to interject, "hey we want to gather...

I'll go you one further. Once I started a Traveller game. I just told the players that their characters were on a small station. They...

Here's a piece of GM advice from In A Wicked Age (p 10): Playing with details Whenever you describe something - describe your character...