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A major goal of play is to have interesting, emotionally resonant things happen frequently. Without it being known in advance what that...
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Oh, I think that MBC's and y'all's Stonetop etc play is absolutely not reflective of the way many of us play those games, lol. Like...
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Then what were you talking about earlier in the thread? About your job not being solely to make the players happy? Sure, but this is a...
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So this is a bit of a sidebar, but I'm not entirely sure that our 1KA game was representative. Our Stonetop game also had a relentless...
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I never said that the GM shouldn’t have authority. And you’re also ignoring my comments that it’s about the group and you’re trying to...
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Sure, there's an ebb and flow to gameplay. Nobody can keep the tension ratcheted for 3 hours straight without getting exhausted IMO! In...
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Not just mine, but also the other folks at the table. And it's not about dramatic weight... stop trying to shoehorn the drama angle into...
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Gotcha, that makes sense from your perspective. Since I don't play games to imitate the banality of life, but instead take advantage of...
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Authority over the outcome of the player's actions vs authority over the fiction and scene setting is very different. I know we've...
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Absolutely. It likely will involve something important between or to the characters, and so it's likely interesting to explore that...
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It's not about the playstyle. It's about the argument because it almost frames exploration as the equivalent of eating your vegetables...
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Nothing you're saying has anything to do with what I was talking about. "Lows" and "highs" in the context of this part of the...
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I think you missed his point entirely. He's talking about pace, not success vs failure.
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Because it isn't even necessary? I mean, @DinoInDisguise is talking about how the mindset can be applied to any game, and how even a...
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I think there's a weird thing that happens in how D&D play interacts with what we are acculturated to expect as "appropriate fiction."...
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