Recent content by AbdulAlhazred

I'd find it interesting to examine some examples.

The very first 2 pages of Dungeon World tell everyone exactly what the game is about. The first couple of sections make it pretty clear what the players are expected to be doing. Then the next couple of sections describe exactly what players' role is in the game, along with the GM's.

Yeah I never got that. It's just a way of structuring a sequence of events that form a coherent unit of play into one 'game'. The purpose being to establish more objective success criteria. Instead of relying on some kind of GM 'feeling' about when a situation is ripe to be wrapped up, there's a...

Yeah, an SC is an encounter worth of play, complexity 5 might need 14 rolls to resolve. Even at 5 minutes each it's an hour of play. So, sure, if you want to spend a whole evening playing through a scenario then it should be 3-5 SCs of varying complexity. You can do things like framework SCs...

Oh yes we are! (Granting I'm not sure who you are referring to). Soft pedalling failure and coddling players is just crappy play! You knew the stakes, you declared your intention to take that risk. A GM, at that point, must follow through.

I have no problem with @EzekielRaiden example either. Such examples could be great play or not based on other aspects, but in general I agree it's FF and would probably be fine in general in a Narrativist context. I'm not sure what your objections to SCs amount to. There's nothing 'bare bones'...

I think there is no game text that is going to both present a generalized RPG, as most of us would recognize it, and not be open to some degree of interpretation. Still, I think Dungeon World, for instance, does vastly better than D&D 5e here. It at least explains the game in a pretty easily...

Yeah, there are games, like 4e D&D, where everyone being equally effective in combat is kind of important. OTOH outside of that sort of consideration, things like social status and racial perceptions, eh. I mean, some things might not be fun, so people should not create those kinds of scenarios...

I don't think there's a version of FF that demands no failures. The example you were responding to seems to me to be pretty solid. Honestly? Where FF gets less easy to apply is when we're dealing with very atomic little actions that don't carry any of the weight of the context with them. "You...

Yeah, all I'm saying here is that your envelope as Little Lord Fontleroy is a bit different shape than that of Sam the Gardner, but they can both be equally pushed, and for equally rewarding play. You are not magically going to have more fun as one or the other. This is the sense in which I want...

I've neither read nor played Monsterhearts myself. I think this is a bit of a genre trope though. You are playing teenagers and dealing with their drama. Not a group exactly known for careful planning and measured responses! So, as a genre trope, going off half-cocked seems pretty solid. Add in...

No I don't. We've all been posting here and discussing each other's ideas for a LONG time! You've been posting for 5 years now, according to your profile, but Lanefan, myself, and many of the others here go back, in my case, getting close to 20 years. He knows he's using a form of excluded...

I just note how you don't distinguish the interests of the player and the character here. Sure, it's probably advantageous from the character's perspective, but the player has different interests. There's no special correlation between having a character with fictional power/riches/authority and...

There's no principle called 'be stupid'. You're reaching. Bringing the conflict to bear on the characters, challenging them, making them get up buckle their boots and get 'er done. That's what this is about. Now, if all a player wants to do is turtle? Yeah that won't work, but going in prepared...

Look, I wasn't there and won't pretend to know what was going on. OTOH I do think it's very likely that the player being complained about was misbehaving. It just strikes me as very odd to attribute that behavior to a detail of their character. A sober evaluation of the situation is very likely...