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I don't know what a narrative game is. Ron Edwards and others popularised narrativist games. I don't know if you mean the same thing...

Yep. Once or twice a year my players do something that's so far out in left field that I'm just left a bit dumbfounded. When that...

Well, 25 years on this site has taught me that people LOVE to argue semantics. :) But the game mode(s) being described by the term...

It was a day yesterday. I'm leaving it as is. :D

I suppose the same Tolkienesque* argument also applied to halflings, but for some reason that never seemed to be so controversial. Of...

"nameless things gnawing on the roots of the Earth" really stuck in my head. Right - he was not a novelist. He was a really good...

One of my favorites: LotR isn't a trilogy, it's one book that was split into three volumes by Allen & Unwin prior to its initial...

The Rebellion being the Viet Cong and the Empire being the US is the official read from Lucas.

I think this is important to keep in mind when the discussion makes real-world analogies. A popular one here is "Star Wars is critical...

I think when people watch Star Wars, they do often miss that it's critical of American Imperialism. There really was a point where the...

I also reject the framing and can only really talk about what I think is commonly missed about the franchise, in my opinion. Star Wars...

This book was written from the perspective of one of the "intermediaries" IIRC, or at least someone who aspired to be one until he...

Want to learn how to roll up a character for the ElfQuest Roleplaying Game? Here Chaosium president and head of our nostalgia department...

They're quicker and easier to resolve, with no maths, basically. Plus many folk like the general vibe of them.