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The post is about how latent scenes are established, and how latent scenes become "activated"/"triggered" and hence actual episodes of...

The OP does not say what you say that it says:

I agree with you about being forward facing, so the players don't have to guess the stakes. When the skill system is leveraged in the...

D&D should definitely be included, but not given special weight because more people play it. Vastly more people play Call of Duty than...

I would not characterize, say, FitD clocks, 4e SCs, and TB2e contests as always being equivalent to a graph. In fact, my experience with...

Yeah. I think the key is probably the forward facing nature of this? Like "you will achieve this goal when you get to full" changes the...

The version of this I'm most familiar with is the 4e skill challenge. Just thinking it through, the challenge consists of: *A threat...

Yeah, I believe they are pretty much identical modulus a detail or two perhaps, though I am much more familiar with AW2e, which uses...

A lot of thinking and discussion about the play of RPGs seems to default to an assumption of map-and-key play. Here is what I mean by...

Taking a break here to ask how you feel this differs from, say, Dungeon World. Here the GM frames scenes, and will develop a set of...

Why do people write down important passwords and leave them on a post-it on their monitors?

Or the visitor was a long time ago and was writing in something readable for their time. Or the original builders put the map in place...

I think there's a distinction between "how you like your game" and what a good objective description of that game are. I don't have any...

And this would be my contention. I think there's a degree of what I would call 'emulation' that necessarily happens in all play. That...

Without a Rosetta stone though, the initial transactions would sometimes require conjecture i believe. This symbol is here often, so...