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This is a good description of the difference. I want to feel like things I don't know matter and have weight, because it amplifies the...

But this of course simply kicks the bias up to a higher plane of abstraction: assigning the odds. Which is already a significant domain...

When talking about fiction-first games the fiction refers to the shared/established fictional situation the table has agreed upon. It...

There's probably a discussion to be had about that, sure, but the scenario I described above? Makes sense in a kind of comedic...

This is a soft move in AW/DW parlance, Describe Future Badness (IIRC). There are a bunch of things that could be going on. First, the...

I've already posted examples in reply to you, twice. Here's a third go:

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...