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If they said they were going to jump the Grand Canyon I would ask them if they really wanted to commit suicide because they aren't going...

No bullet flies out of a gun because there is no bullet. You point and click and depending on the game some calculations are made. A...

The first time I played cyberpunk, I spent an hour making a character that could one-shot enemies with his fists. The first encounter...

how is could that be the failure of player skill - a 0HP death mechanic is nothing that happens in the narrative, its a pure mechanical...

He didn't use the word evolution, but it was clearly implied in my opinion. Just because D&D has been dominant, there have always been...

Diegetic: existing or occurring within the world of a narrative rather than as something external to that world. The person climbing...

There are going to be times when an action declaration makes no sense for the current state of affairs. I try to encourage creativity...

Scribe, you cannot answer every question with Shadowdark :p

I have no clue how you go from the blog post I listed to "This supports my litmus test". It is in no way mentioned, alluded to or even...

Is the GM responsible for the bulk of the world building fiction? Sure, unless they're using published materials. Is the GM responsible...

If by that you mean the GM is responsible for the world, it's inhabitants and how they respond to the characters, sure. If you mean...

There's also the implication of a linear evolution that I don't really buy. There have pretty much always been multiple alternative...

I don't see why they wouldn't know. I'm reading a book series right now where the heroine regularly faces down threats that would have...

Precisely. The biggest problem with chronological analyses is that the further you get from the origin generation the muddier...

Eh. Analysis like this is almost a Rorshach test, people see patterns whether they're there or not. But the patterns almost always...