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Again, I think that you're making a kind of category mistake. The result of a mechanical moment - a failed roll, for example - does...

“Fiction first” means that we need to describe and understand the fiction of an action before we can adjudicate it: “For example, in...

I think we play rather differently. I find scale is determined in the orchestration phase you alluded to. I can see my players saying...

I would treat that with similar caution than “democratic” in a name of a country.

That's not an uncommon take. But for games like Blades and AW it really does matter. Both games and their various progeny take the...

In the defense of lots of people, Blades and/or PbtA can be a real issue to grok when you come from different kinds of games without a...

Agreed! I agree, those readings were odd for sure. And I suppose my idea was less for 'use the odd reading' and instead a way of...

Well yeah, like - consequences should follow directly from the fiction as established, as worked out in the position and effect...

Is there some aspect we could append to what you post here along the lines of "and if this interpretation is not working, it's ok to...

Yes and no. The fact that the core of the game is framing and fictional positioning isn't really up for grabs. To what extent a given...

@Crimson Longinus - I completely get why you'd say this based on the rules. The GM does indeed introduce the idea of possible harm (or...

You need to trademark that shizz.

It's the Rashomon effect; each participant's recollections are their own story, and each story illustrates a part of the greater whole.

This is the exact opposite of how actions are adjudicated. Our two different readings of the rules on this point explains a lot. The...

These are the mechanics by which the consequences are measured and tracked, not the actual consequences. If you ignore the fictional...