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Which post was it. I know I commented on one example you provided me saying it sounded like an objective mystery to me
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I hope the below will suffice: Any situation in the fiction that arises in a moment before all the facts are established where one of...
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Right, what I said shouldn't be controversial.
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He means it has been true the whole time.....
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And I have no idea how your example there has anything to do with what I said. So I cannot help you because I don't understand your...
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Maybe it's more tech background vs theatre background, but i've viewed prompt as a computer waiting for user input as well. It does...
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One way in which it is more 'true' to have a set of details made up beforehand (while unrevealed) than it is to have those same details...
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Behold, the GM Fiat: Actually doesn't look that bad to be honest.
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But you are distorting what I am saying by referring it back constantly to "GM decides" (and your bullet points beneath are not...
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Just to Again, I don't think conversations are even always this binary. Sometimes you react to unspoken social cues. Sometimes you...
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That doesn't make it arbitrary. That you don't see the reasoning and logic behind the DM's decision, does not make it random or done on...
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Those scenes contain details made up on the spot, though. Unless they are pre-authored, it's all made up right then and there. That...
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Indeed, such as whether a lone character can leave camp in Torchbearer, or whether a player can invent a clue that proves specific thing...
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Prompts are much more direct and stronger than cues IMO. They also suggest it runs like a computer program. I strongly dislike the...
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It's more like a tangent of a tangent of a tangent ;)
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