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So it would be more realistic if bad things happened whether competent or incompetent people took the lead? That doesn't make much sense...

I'm not appealing to authority: I'm describing a fairly well-known RPG rulebook.

It's not true that the cook is "there and not there", any more than it's true that a monster who was authored as the result of a...

You have to be careful here, there are deep differences between Inspectres, a shared storytelling game, and Apocalypse World! In AW all...

I don't think I am refusing to suspend disbelief just because the setting is being first imagined while we play a zero myth game like...

Things can get weird because a lot of Narrativist best practices aren't actually best practices and what gets ported between games is...

For the players maybe. But, for the DM? Seriously?

That's the thing. There is no difference. The "random encounter roll" is not connected to anything other than, as you say, having this...

I don't know if my take is actually logical or even accepted interpretation. But it's satisfactory to me because it is an...

And there we have it perfectly laid out. The encounter is rolled FIRST. THEN the scene is created to make the encounter flow in the...

Right, so to kind of give some historical perspective: you can look at the evolution of RPG design and practice as a process of both...

GMs having a mental model they develop and evaluate is only more like our moment-to-moment existence as long as we are dealing with...

What the fudge does this even mean? IN THE FICTION there either is or is not a cook in the kitchen. The GM says "there is a cook in the...

No one disagrees with this, as best I'm reading the conversation. The cook is in the kitchen because of <insert in-fiction causal...

@AbdulAlhazred made this point some way upthread: To me, it seems that the real issue is this: @AlViking and @Maxperson are affirming...