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What I'm saying is that 'Skill Challenge' is not a diegetic construct. Characters do not look around and say "boy, I'm in a skill...

I don't think this characterisation of narrativist games as relying on players being uninterested in a particular outcome is correct. I...

Well, lets not overemphasize that. I'll take the example of Dungeon World, since I am running it now. The players, before creating...

I don't even understand you. Why are you playing a game at all? I am playing one for the same reasons, because the structure of the game...

Yeah, if for some reason a challenge is entirely fictionally inappropriate, then there's no challenge! That could result from some PC...

Totally disagree. The situation is simply all fiction. It is just up to the GM to frame the situations as checks, or not in some cases...

And in which type of game would it NOT be true that this is a goal of the players', or at least a strategy! I don't send my wizard out...

Yeah, IaWA seems like a bit of a special case. Honestly it is a very different sort of game, there's really only a certain amount that...

So, there was discussion of In a Wicked Age and 'agendas' (best interests to use IaWA terminology). I think we then have some hybrid...

And reactions. The reactions bit is vital for solo play.

Here’s the types I think we’ve covered so far: Map-and-key Draw a map, fill it with content. Where the players go, there is where the...

Yeah, and you mentioned that complexity is essentially a matter of determining the overall weight of the events contained within the...

It's a decision about "weight", about the degree of focus/attention to be given, in play, to this particular matter. Which is no more...

One other thing I would add on 4e SCs. There are 5 complexity levels, each requiring more successes. Yes CL5 is harder than CL1, but let...

I think they did. Implicitly if not explicitly in the OP. Alright so it seems like the "best interests" that Permerton is talking...