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"If a lion could bring a flask, we could not collect blood in it." -Burning Wittgenstein

But did the lion bring a flask? Let's ask the real questions.

You would think after being immersed in these posts for a few years, you'd just start to pick up the jargon by osmosis. (Is "osmosis"...

None of your posts are confusing in any way. I disagree with your usage of various terms, but I fully understand what you mean. I...

The aforementioned spinosaurus dinosaur? But if you want more: Lions can frighten anyone, pterafolk (from Tomb of Annihilation) that...

Hang on - so in reply to someone's claim that the fiction causes things to happen in the real world, it's pedantic to explain why I...

Being systematic is good. Saying "I'm describing these principles, because I think they'll make for a strong, distinctive play...

Sandra calls it "blorb" because she wants to avoid having the definitional arguments that come from people using the dictionary meaning...

You don't have to like it. But that dislike shouldn't prevent you from categorizing play in a way that includes things you don't like.

If you are exercising your character’s agency, why would you say something that doesn’t really matter? I think this is a circular...

On Plausibility: What I would say looking at my own GMing and self-scouting I have done after the fact is that I find say running Stars...

Shockingly, if you read the not-very-long blog posts, they explain why. And the definition comes from someone who is actively...

Right, but I'm trying to view it in context... which you say is important to you. Losing control of your character is a form of agency...

Player agency isn't a feeling. Player agency isn't subjective.

Nobody is following you around and making these analyses. You're choosing to engage. And it absolutely is a good faith discussion...