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@ the Narrativists The posts by @pemerton and @Campbell pretty much sum up my thoughts on the living world matter. For fun though, I'm...

What matters to me is where the agenda is (and how tightly we are holding on) - are we focusing on exploring the setting or is the...

Disregarding what it means to be player driven or not I would say that play where we are spending substantial amounts of time exploring...

Just asking what the purpose of constraints are, Micah. It doesn’t really have anything to do with trad vs. narrativism. If you can...

I’m not talking about creative control of the setting either. More creative input into the direction of play. Into the game.I’ll caveat...

Not exactly, though it may relate a bit. I’m just asking what is the purpose of constraining the players. I think answering that may...

But only in how they interact with the setting. Which is GM crafted. It may not be in any way unique to that player or their character.

Yes, that is how they are constrained. They are constrained to act as their character could. Why? What purpose do those constraints serve?

I suppose I don’t see character autonomy to be the equivalent of driving the direction of the campaign. Yes, the players are choosing...

Yes… but why are the players constrained?

Why do the players have constraints? Well like I said, Harper designed Doskvol with a mind for the fiction but also with a mind for...

No, that is you reading it that way. This is a forum, right, everything here is opinion and preference, and rarely facts presented as...

I don't know who you play with, but the people I play with wouldn't do this. I've done this kind of delegation as GM plenty of times and...

From a practical standpoint, I don't really start play not knowing much about the characters. Most of the trad games I play/run tend to...

I don't think anybody in this thread has stood up and said "I consider myself to be a storyteller as GM," with the exception of "I have...