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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This has nothing particular to do with the game or its rules but with fiction. Essentially Harper's arguing for an equivalent of...

I look at it this way. Saying "this technique works if you use Assumption A. This same technique fails if you Assumption B." is...

It is illustrating fail forward. Failed attempt at kidnap => word on the street of a knife-wielding assailant. Failed Sing to try and...

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...

When talking about fiction-first games the fiction refers to the shared/established fictional situation the table has agreed upon. It...

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...

I've already posted examples in reply to you, twice. Here's a third go: