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My answers. effect the players agency - no effect the GMs agency - no n/a less arbitrary - no transparent - yes n/a

My understanding from all our previous discussions is that narrativist games typically mandate consequences for most player actions when...

Good points. The owners of the respective characters retain full control over their characters thoughts and actions. So the player...

Now don't get me wrong, i love the example and the probing questions. One small issue regarding your rules and principles, you don't...

Yeah. To me it is weird that people think nar games are somehow less GM driven than trad ones. In my expereince in many nar games the GM...

I want to return to a play example I used previously if anyone is interested. So the situation is that there's this hitman, he's...

None of it is illusionism. That's a form of railroading and I don't use it. We have looser constraints by the rules, but the social...

This is why I don't like teh whole "GMs notes" thing. Because in trad play all kinds of twists arise as well (and also from a...

Probably none. All the knowledge has been written down. All that's been lost is Perkins' and Crawford's style.

Threads like this remind me that most people never worked in a gigantic corporation before. Perkins and Crawford were planning on...

Come on, it isn't that bad. . Oh.

I know we're talking about new directions for the game but let me put in a quick word for keeping things accessible to younger...

I think a little more exploration of "gameful" is necessary here. Addressing the premise doesn't have a lot to do with the gameplay loop...

I'm not contending that they couldn't. I maintain that from a business perspective I understand why they don't.

Likely forever. Odds of a D&D game coming out that crosses over into the broad pop culture like that again are approaching 0.