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I'm never going to be down with that. To me the game is everything involved in interacting with it. The rules, the lore, the art, the...

Depends on what one means by game, no?

Much thanks for your generous allowance kind sir.

Right. Or to think about it differently, one could make a different game just like clue with different characters, locations and...

My take is the game of clue generates fiction. It’s not particularly robust fiction or rpg like in open endedness of play and goals, but...

Game is often used to refer to a particular play experience and not the rules of the game though. Example: did you see the basketball...

There’s another term we can argue about for 100 pages. Does game denote overall play experience or does it just mean the rules and...

Step 1 Set up a pre-established correctness condition vs Step 1 don't setup a preestablished correctness condition. That's already a...

Of course it does!

Again, you guys are using language I wouldn't use which I think is causing some of the confusion. But having an objective predzrtemined...

I think that's actually the source of nearly all the major disagreements that have been had in this thread and all the other...

no one is saying you can't do this, they are saying this doesn't seem like you are actually solving a mystery

I am not a fan of either but that is just me

I much prefer pre-authored to the derogatory "play to find out what's in the DM's notes" that keeps being thrown about by folks.

I think the issue is not every group or system is this regimented. This is why we are using terms like organic and fluid. II may in fact...