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Why does hoping to meet an Elf cause a guard to arrive? In terms of cause-and-effect, I don't see any difference (when we're talking...

I think we can take it that the cook screaming is a hard move. So let's reason back - what player-side move failed, such that the cook...

A blend of history and myth for the ambience of the setting, protagonists and antagonists driven by epic passions that may or may not be...

I periodically do a rant about how arranging stories in order of internal chronology leads to greatly distorting impressions, and it’s...

I was thinking of Chekhov's gun before I read your post. The difference, I would say, is that in the sort of play Harper is describing...

I think this is slightly missing the point, getting into strawman territory. I think it is important to seperate the concept of...

Agreed. If I had the energy, which I don’t, I’d do a Storyteller’s Vault thing on permanent advancement happening only with character...

A far better zero to hero* example might be Arya Stark's progression through GoT. * - well, maybe not capital-H "Hero" n the...

This all day. My favorite traditional games are ones like Chronicles of Darkness and Achtung Cthulhu! where you pretty much start out...

So, the way I tend to view the listed GM Moves in any given game is that these are the things that you explicitly have the authority to...

Or even: talking about how D&D has changed for many people inclusive of its guidelines in the newest edition as well as games that take...

I think it's a huge mistake to cast GM Moves as just what GMs do. I know that a lot of us kind of intuitively picked up scene framing...

Rand al'Thor and Luke Skywalker are just about the worst zero to hero examples one could come up with. They are good at just about...

Rand al'Thor was NEVER normal. Rand just thought he was normal. Rand's story arc is about figuring out just how not normal in any...

I think advancement is overvalued, especially outside of D&D and its ilk. Most characters in fiction do not get "better" all the time...