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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...

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:

I've posted numerous examples over the whole course of this thread. I can tell you what Harper is saying. I anticipate I will then be...

Stop acting like you meant “like we do” to mean something I’d never have claimed.

Who says it often doesn't happen? Have you been on many overland expeditions? I haven't. My experience with them, such as it is, comes...

I don't think you're lying. But you appear to use the D&D combat rules. That's enough for me to infer how versimilitudinous combat is. I...

Yes, exactly. But that’s why you reference experts, they have access to the evidence to support the claims they’re making. But I’m not...

No protagonists? Do you just mean characters? So a cook is very likely to be found in a kitchen, right? But the cook will not spend...