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Also Heavy Gear, Mekton, Warhammer Fantasy?

For a "War" RPG, would that be something like the MechWarrior RPGs, Lancer and the 40k war based rpgs?

Not really. Neither I or the 30 year creator are required to incorporate fiction arising from the game into their world.

For this case in particular, no aspect of the world is under threat. Even if the GM/Author runs a game in the setting, they are under...

Correct - the GM could have stepped in (or rather, dropped out of character from the role they were playing as the ghost lord NPC) at...

I'm only saying you seem to be describing a modal shift between "perceiving" and "authoring", enough that the mental shift can disrupt...

I think there are two elements here that I think make the situation interesting and maybe unusual in the context of this thread. One...

For this case, I'd think I'd agree with @TwoSix in that the authoring here was largely subconscious - a process of fabulation. By being...

Sure, that makes sense. In this case, the village was ruined and all the relevant NPCs were dead or gone, so it's not the kind of...

I find that too. Earlier today I was reflecting on playing Ironsworn solo and coop, and it struck me that there is probably a fourth...

In this case, it was a grievance against my character from the NPC. I'd agree that collaboration was needed, and we did, just during...

I forget the precise details, but this argument involved the treatment of at least two previously unspecified NPCs, at least one...

To give an example from a few years ago. Game is 13th Age set in Greyhawk. My character is an elven princeling playboy and is in...

I can certainly see where you are coming from I suspect that's not how we actually narrate failures in a lot of cases. The examples of...

The argument may well be because the rules are silent on how to construct a "hit table" of this sort (this kind of thing is, ironically...