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Here the bits that feel wrong to me. The point of the conflict is not to create a dramatic story with satisfying narrative beats. The...

Both. If the GM inclines to say "yes", the player is at liberty to explain why a roll should be made. If the GM is calling for a roll...

Well I specifically wouldn't say that. Or rather, without context it makes no sense to say that because we're talking about techniques...

I'd argue that's applying some concepts of verisimilitude to genres and settings where they don't work, at least as normally applied. I...

On contrivance: at some point setting and scenario design needs to happen. Within the constraints of what is possible there will be a...

I’ve just chalked his posts down as coming from an alternate reality, since pretty much everything shared is like totally opposite or...

This is why I've made repeated comparisons between Roberts play and my own and have pointed out how those exact preconditions created a...

Oh for sure, and maybe you don't think it quite meets Baker's definition for whatever reason that you experience in play or how you...

Right. This has always been something that puzzles me. It never seemed to me that the sort of stuff I was doing in my RPGing in the...

There's nothing stopping non-exception based design from doing that; you just have a set of rules that explains how to apply the extent...

The DM guide also covers player exploits/various examples of poor play when it talks directly to players, as covered on this site and...

I was the one who said IMO that if you take a step back, from a "player decision within a GM authored area POV" a sandbox ran with...

Almost no one in any situation has zero agency, but someone who is not lost in the desert likely has more than someone who is. Having...

When I run Apocalypse World my GM moves are not in service to a particular theme or narrative arc. What happens is emergent of player...

All I'm talking about here is basic interaction design. Is there a reliable to get information about the environment before you need to...