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I think that skill challenges were a noble failure. Plenty of games on the storygame side have some means of chaining together...

And if they do that, weird incentives arise. Many narrativist mechanics allow the player to affect things the character couldn't and...

You said characters are not in challenge. Then why are we using challenge mechanics? What does it represent? To me the point of...

A lot of narrativist mechanics are like this. The games have weird incentive structures that might disassociate the player decision...

You have to assume the point of the mechanic is not to try and succeed at the challenge. The goal is to see what happens as a result of...

Dragonborn equivalents (more like dragonborn/lizardfolk hybrids) in my setting Artra always have tails and they never have wings. Tails...

Because that's what narrativist mechanics do. They let player's directly manipulate the story in a way that only the GM normally can...

Why are we having a challenge mechanic if the characters are not in a challenge? What does nay of this represent? Why does arbitrary...

I think the main reason is that we are all human and cannot get into the heads of another race like dwarves and elves. I referenced the...

Looks dumb, like an obviously bad design. Not that dragons could actually fly if the wings were facing the correct way (magic aside)...

I mean, the design is just terrible, but I also really do not care that much. I am not obligated to follow WotC designs. The dragons in...

I mean, for me, the problem isn’t that it’s impossible. I enjoy all sorts of impossible things in my fantasy media. The problem is that...

So I am not quite sure how literally I should understand "the map and key" in the OP. Because I don't think that this is literally how...

Which makes it very "mechanics first, fiction as colour." If the player invents something clever that should resolve the situation then...

Yeah, this is why I always found them unsatisfying as presented. They simply do not do what I want them to do. The "gameplay" becomes...