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I've always found it weird that metacurrencies are considered a narrative mechanic. Their meta-narrative nature always distinguished...

The problem is that it not only abstracts it, but in ways that spit up counterfactuals if you press on it at all hard. AC only works in...

I'm not sure Watsonian vs Doylist is the same thing as Trad vs Narrativist. Our play is as much 1st person reasoning as the character as...

I don't know, really. I have asked people to share examples of this Doylist influence a player has that would be specific to narrativist...

First of all, there's a somewhat different attitude towards characters and roles. Trad play is fundamentally rooted in a competitive...

Absolutely not. "There is an iceberg ahead" is only a complication if the person at the helm doesn't know how to pilot their ship. The...

Well, think about it. My 4e thief is in an SC where the object is to steal something from a house. Thievery is more a modus than a...

The play was hectic at times for the players but sure didn't seem so for him. :) If he talked much about prior runs of the game I...

Then actually do the analysis! You are super willing to leap to conclusions and assume you know how this works, but what I hear you...

Because that world is not real and doesn't work like it is! When you base an analysis on a mistaken idea of what the situation is, you...

And again, you're out of your depth. You have clearly never participated in Narrativist play, as your characterization of how it works...

Well,DURING PLAY in character play literally consists of that, plus acting out the role of the character. In terms of analyzing play...

You're simply out of your depth here I'm afraid. Yes, some sort of technique must exist which lets the table settle on a fictional...

I love that you think that it's unrealistic for a failed lockpicking check to do any of the above, but don't have a problem with picking...

And the purpose of fail forward design being baked into the rules is to prevent poor GMing from the start. People always complain when...