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Yes, this is true. I think it's quite different from actually having the story manifest during play.

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Just saw this on Facebook: A new Disney+ series coming in 2026. Don’t know if it will be animated or live action. Presumably it takes...

I was somewhat inspired also by overgeekeds post in what are you reading about kishōtenketsu story structure, and recognizing i quite...

You will get a series of events, but post events i think you can readily tie them together into a story as such. I think with dnd it is...

Some folks in this thread should read Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Allison. It’s all about ways of...

When we play Blades in the Dark, through each moment of conversation about the world we are telling the story ("playing to find out") of...

I just finished S. Petersen's Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors. My son got me the hardcover for Christmas. 128 pages of monster and...

Actually not. The comic came first with the toys. An Exec pointed out that kids may not be able to read a comic so they BS'ed about how...

While I may agree with not getting that outcome naturally, I don't think that is only definition of story, and that you can have stories...

There's a big difference between giving agency towards what kind of scene will be presented versus how the scene will be resolved. Many...

Our group plays a WIDE variety of games. So for us Plot, Story, and Play to Find Out are not all talking about the same potato, but...

To expand on this: someone (I think it was Ron Edwards) once said that an RPG needs to have some things that are fixed, and some things...

Great questions! I think we spin waaaaay to much over the distinctions here, like between, "...is a story," and, "...is a story...

I see it more as seeding a story. You are choosing a setting and characters and then making something of that. I dont mind a little prep...