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Here some stuff I found online that presents itself as being about sandboxing: How to make a Fantasy Sandbox . . . 21. Look at your...
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I'm a bit outside all of you guys here. My position on fiat is that both the lack of accountability and the arbitrariness are equally...
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Sure, no problem. I do think there was an exceptionally salient point made earlier by @deleuzian_kernel that the only thing creating an...
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Answering questions as the necessary output of playing the game is not pre-authoring. It's playing the game. No one is arguing that...
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I'm catching up to this wicked late, but today was a weirdly busy day. The framework is something that really stuck with me from the...
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This is a conversation that breaks my brain. I am actually going to explore it in play but it's lower on my list of priorities than...
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The procedures are the standard ones for Burning Wheel, or Prince Valiant, or a 4e D&D skill challenge. There are parallels in AW and...
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This is an interesting observation, but I think it actually sells short some of the other parts of your post, which focus on some...
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It's not a non-sequitur. Pre-authored facts - a prior, stipulated answer - is one way of establishing something to find out. It's not...
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Yeah, agreed. This was a failed thought experiment that threw most people off. My bad for introducing it! It was meant to show that a...
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Regardless of whether there is a prewritten backstory or the mystery is being developed procedurally during play, the key is that the...
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Guys, I'm not suggesting that you should lie to your players. I'm saying that, when there is true situational play, there is no...
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This is almost my point! Notice that I said use procedural methods for generating the mystery. Not fiat. I'm not saying craft the...
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If you as a GM is fine in allowing play to go whichever way and really commit to playing situationally, you might without issue tell...
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Okay. Don't do this. Just tell us what you are getting at. I don't have any interest in this kind of exchange
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