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DW has Discern Realities, which surely any competent player is likely to trigger. They're going to ask at least one question, and it's...

It is illustrating fail forward. Failed attempt at kidnap => word on the street of a knife-wielding assailant. Failed Sing to try and...

I don't know, you tell me? The games that I play have momentum, events in motion, trajectories of threat and promise. I've posted many...

Are you an expert on satellite imaging? Or do you rely on authorities to assure you that Google street view is an accurate representation?

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...