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I am building rapport with them in attempt to get them see things in my way, consort or sway? Yes, but this also is not a game that...

Well, my PoD project keeps getting stretched out, so maybe prices will come down by the time it's done. (stifles slightly maniacal laughter)

To me it is perfectly clear that what is happing in any RPG play is story creation. This goes for trad games where players merely...

Perhaps we should take a closer look at what actually happens at the table when we play RPGs. Humans are, by nature and context, story...

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

At minimum you need: Some kind of organisational question which we’re answering The principle that you are actually playing to find...

Nearly 16 years ago, Eero Tuovinen wrote this: Here’s how games like Sorcerer, Dogs in the Vineyard, some varieties of Heroquest, The...

There's no "collaborative storytelling" in Sorcerer or Apocalypse World, if played in the way the rulebooks set out. For instance, from...

If I and my friends were shipwrecked on a deserted isle, worked out how to survive, and eventually were able to signal for a rescue, we...

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...

But you do keep returning to the idea that the story isn't what's being done at the table now, it's what you see and talk about when...