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No… I think anyone describing them as “two very different things” is exaggerating. No, a player asking if his character can search for...

You're on a discussion board on the internet posting specific reasons that you seem to have identified on why you find a style of play...

I don’t know, it depends on the game, I suppose. I was imagining 5e D&D… in which case I’d likely just have the player make a skill...

A) I was trying to communicate how the game I run the most tries to address those concerns/points you raised, such that it avoids...

You said it was it's implausible that something interesting happens every time we roll the dice. I responded with why in Stonetop, we...

Let's recast this a bit: when I run Stonetop, we roll the dice because we are doing something interesting, there's an obstacle of some...

Not that PBTA design precludes this. We do an awful lot of setting discovery in Stonetop, it's a core component of the Agenda and...

Yes yes you’re extrapolating. And in the many years since the place was built, with the many subsequent inhabitants that you’ve decided...

I'm not sure how you think giving examples of bad narration shows that good narration isn't possible.

Many accounts of some "narrative games" (your term, not mine) have been given in this thread. I've posted a lot about Burning Wheel. I...

It's not about getting the terms correct. It's about accurately representing how we do the damn thing. You not liking the way a...

Yeah, I was just pointing out that “that’s not the way the real world works” is true of every RPG. Because often in these...

I don't know what you mean by "story driven play". I mean, you're the guy who says that you want fiction over rules; yet you seem to be...

Your post shifts between talking about imaginary causation in the fiction, and the exercise of authorial power in the real world. The...

Stakes in the sense we're talking about in the context of Narrativist play are personal stakes, as in stuff that matters to the...