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I think the issue here is the difference between simple task adjudication and Narrativist 'fiction resolution'. Even in AW I'd like to...
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So there are a few ways to look at this. First, have all those factors actually been set already? The weather and the location of...
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So I can better understand why I don't like it so I can avoid doing similar things in my own games? It might be there's some itch in my...
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I can't speak for others, but what I want is clear stakes. I want to know what I'm risking, what the potential rewards are, and how the...
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It's not, and it illustrates a much more common pattern in Narrativist play. Hino sees a bunch of peasants being driven into an assault...
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A desire to understand the greater world around us? Knowledge for its own sake? I mean, I know all 50 US state capitals despite the...
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My only normative judgment is that the norm should be that people examine and approach games with the mindset of “I wonder how this game...
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I work under the assumption that the amount of people who read threads is larger than the amount of posters. I’m more interested in...
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This has nothing particular to do with the game or its rules but with fiction. Essentially Harper's arguing for an equivalent of...
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I look at it this way. Saying "this technique works if you use Assumption A. This same technique fails if you Assumption B." is...
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It is illustrating fail forward. Failed attempt at kidnap => word on the street of a knife-wielding assailant. Failed Sing to try and...
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I don't know, you tell me? The games that I play have momentum, events in motion, trajectories of threat and promise. I've posted many...
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When talking about fiction-first games the fiction refers to the shared/established fictional situation the table has agreed upon. It...
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There are two things here: (1) If someone has failed, generally the GM is going to make what in AW parlance would be called a hard...
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I've already posted examples in reply to you, twice. Here's a third go:
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