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This is a big point. I don't know how much it has been misunderstood or not. But planning the background and facts, even anticipating...

The deliberate aspect isn't relevant. Clues are clues. Finding is finding. Interpreting is interpreting. Solving is solving.

You aren't just solving a puzzle you are solving a fictional mystery. The characters can follow leads, pick up the phone call people to...

I was down to 216 this morning! For anyone struggling the first 2-3 weeks of the change I was miserable. 6-7 weeks later and it’s not...

There is also the fact that a world is being modeled for the players to investigate and interact with as they seek clues. This isn't the...

In your last few posts you seem to be taking the stance that the only things that are real mysteries are those that conform to every...

Of course you are dealing with facts and constraints. You the DM makes them up for your game. In the case of simulating reality to an...

my point wasn’t that no fiction is ever made up. My point was that such isn’t the point of narrativist RPG’s or really any RPG. It’s a...

Very specific use of terminology can be used to promote a point of view quite effectively, especially if the terminology is less than...

What would people think about a hybrid of the two approaches? Is that even possible? I'm thinking something like: there are X possible...

Those numbers make any sense.

Right. It’s the equivalent of saying the point of narrativist games is to make up some fiction.

This is going to vary from group to group because we are covering a broad range of styles and systems. I am not talking so much about...

Replying out of order because it's how my thoughts happened. It doesn't. Because you did it in the open. I specifically referred to...

If you generating the answers as part of game play, then there is no true discovery of clues happening. The clues are created, rather...