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Our reasons have nothing to do with feelings. An example: Narrativist games feel like they play differently than non-narrativist games...

But my point isn't about feeling. Both can produce fun and engagement. But when we did this with Hillfolk, we knew we weren't solving a...

I think that depends on what we are doing. They were perfectly happy with the RBRB/Hillfolk mystery where there wasn’t a predetermined...

Okay. Then let me specify. Because all three were meant to be player, nothing about the characters at all. We, as players, investigate...

It's not a tension with player actions. It's a tension between the two instructions. One reads, to me, as "absolutely do not prep EVER...

I have done a thing almost exactly like the above, as something my Dungeon World group did. Are you saying that what they went through...

Why not? Because prior to being directly, completely, and explicitly revealed-in-play, there's all sorts of effects the true facts...

No this is just isn't so. The players are putting together information to reach conclusions about who did it. They very much are solving...

No these two things are totally different. Forget the word real if that makes you feel better, but you surely can see that a game where...

It wasn't literally notes. The GM notes a stand in for any GM prep was my understanding. But if it is literally about the GM's notes...

I'm sure they can. But their action declaration was "I go to Krumptown to meet Sludge" and that did not come to pass. It seems to me...

Right. But basically the thing is that if revelation that a bad stuff has happened is a hard move, and you are supposed to not use hard...

I don't consider it to be "solving a mystery" if the solution is "causally downstream" of the event the mystery is about. If it is...

are the details from the clock hidden from the players until they try to interact with those elements in the fiction?

So have we now came full circle? Are we back to Narrativist games like AW don't allow prep for most details and certainly not enough to...