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Hmm. There's a lot of good stuff going on there. I'm not sure that the rules make RPG play possible in quite the same way that the rules...

Let's spell this out and we'll see if it holds together. "Roleplaying games can be games, but they don't have to be". You see the...

Druid magic items.

I didn't actually suggest that it moves from shared imaginary space to story. I think, as others have suggested that it might be...

Notably missing from the above is a discussion of "the fiction" and "in character" -- which I appreciate. While it is common to play...

Perhaps we should take a closer look at what actually happens at the table when we play RPGs. Humans are, by nature and context, story...

I think there’s advice in the book for the GM to turn to the players if they’re struggling with ideas. I don’t think it’s meant as...

This is a good post.

I think there some solid reasons why the idea that in RPG play a story is being told hangs around as it does. You have a group of people...

This is always interesting to me, although lurking on the BITD subreddit and discord I see a lot of similar things. The core flow of...

Yes, this is true. I think it's quite different from actually having the story manifest during play.

Some folks in this thread should read Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Allison. It’s all about ways of...

When we play Blades in the Dark, through each moment of conversation about the world we are telling the story ("playing to find out") of...

I agree that defining terms has value. But I don't think "correctness" has anything to do with it. Because of a long ingrained...