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This is why the torch timer in Shadowdark is so brilliant.

Talking uses up so much time. Debating action declarations, having conversations between PCs and NPCs, sidebars, back and forth...

This is all quite fair. I dont rhink its moot either, we could call them snot stacks and still discuss all the gory details. As for the...

I'm willing to particpate as people use a term--I'm a descriptive linguist, not prescriptive--but that doesn't mean I don't think the...

Well that clears you of any need to participate further! More seriously, I dont really see the point here. I mean if you want to call...

Well, the pitch itself for one, plus all the rules about how you may or may not make contact with other players as you run. Possibly...

I’m way to in the moment and processing a ton of mental stuff when I GM to really keep tabs of how everything is coming together (it’s a...

100% I would also say that you are also condensing two axes - collaborative scene building and pre-plotted arcs. For example someone...

I thought the same thing, especially when the situation the GM is describing, the setting backstory, and the actions the players decide...

So often.

It seems to me that there may be a profitable distinction to be made between: 1. We are creating story with planned direction - 'OK in...

Some. Some RPGs. Sure. But if it's only some RPGs then that story with all its features isn't central to RPG play generally, but rather...

So I'll grant you the efficiency argument, but not that a move from more efficient to less efficient explains the function of RPG rules...

Not what I mean by story. Series of evens is a story. It might not necessarily be a good story, but a story nevertheless. But we are...

What are the stakes of changing 'creating' there to 'participating in'? I think the lack of intentionality by the participants vis a vis...