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yeah, that is usually tends to be the sentiment I try to convey with it. But if basically all RPGs are "fiction first" then it is...

I kinda feel like, though... how do some of these folks get through basic training? I've (accidentally) seen some youtube videos about...

I also bristle, especially when it comes from a player I've been gaming with for years. It's a trauma response I think. Some of the...

This I wholeheartedly agree with. It's akin to when they get hung up on an NPC that has no bearing on anything and just won't let it...

I agree. What I'm having a hard time with under this scenario, is in understanding how a group playing high level PCs(at least two can...

I would not call it railroading per se, but it is rather heavy handed in way that I can understand the player's frustration. But a lot...

1. Not a railroad. 2. Generally I don’t. For me a railroad is more of an extreme thought experiment construct than a term describing...

In this case, the failure came with additional information: the spell did not fail, rather the caster discovered that their planar...

One spell failing to achieve their goal does not a railroad make.

There has to be more to it than that, I'd think, else this is just a rewording of the basic granular play loop common to all RPGs...

Instead of pitting it as stakes vs no stakes OR diegetic vs non-diegetic perhaps we should break that into 4 categories. Stakes and...

I agree with your take but anytime one with quasi police powers weighs in it can have a bit of a chilling effect on the side that...

Wait, the only substantial disagreement from the last exchange was about the term immersionist? Couldn’t you have just said, yea but I...

I have. I don’t think it’s silly at all.

But player facing doesn't mean "not meta". Where you are on the clock does seem to be at least partially meta.