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Why would you assume that feeling doesn't exist in Narrativist play? I mean, for one thing, it is not the case that SETTING is all...

I didn't find Goblins in the rulebook. Here's a Raider (p 140): Rank:Dangerous (2 progress per harm; inflicts 2 harm)...

I hadn't realised that this was still mysterious at this point. Burning Wheel supports player-driven RPGing well, because (i) core...

Then why do you keep calling your approach "objective"? You've done that a dozen times in this thread alone.

Well, then, I'm glad you've had games which serve that purely-casual interest since literally the hobby began. Kinda seems like a "how...

Except that then people use the word "objectivity"/"objectively"/etc. and similar things. Which means it isn't just "for them". It's...

I mean, they aren't literally identical techniques. My argument was that folks have--repeatedly--asserted a fundamental difference in...

Yes, I've read your posts and some of your blogs. Well, you haven't explained how (say) Ironsworn works. Which must mean you think it...

@Micah Sweet, @Lanefan, and @robertsconley absolutely have made that argument. I'm fairly sure @mamba also has. They have explicitly...

The 2014 DMG had sandbox play called out as a specific style with some talk about what that looked like. Episodes and Serials IMO is...

Then I disagree with the assertion you have claimed here. There isn't one standard. "Internal consistency" has massive limitations that...

Yeah. "When everything is X, nothing is" is a hugely flawed premise that almost always actually falls down. Syndrome's use of it in...

Sure, but the 2024 DMG doesn't even mention it as a play style any more. I think that if you're prioritizing classic sandbox style play...

But you're not! You're using it as piece of jargon, to describe certain real-world gameplay dynamics!

Stakes, as in "there is something of priority to the character at stake here." @pemerton has noted many times that in Burning Wheel...