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I gotta say, AW is pretty strong about wanting things to stay in character, and DW is also rather explicit here. But that being said...
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It’s part of it, yes. But I also find that you just don’t need to worry all that much about separating what the players know from what...
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It’s very clearly stated that the guard heard the singing and came to see what was going on,
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I don’t know. “Unconnected” seems pretty clear. And I would say all the consequences are clearly connected to the actions. Well, maybe...
Jun 15, 2025
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"Optimizing the fiction" to shape the outcome range is definitely part of what I see as fiction-first gameplay, for the games that bring...
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So what did your post have to do with what I said? I was asked how I handle a situation in this post from @Lanefan: The context of...
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I'm simply not old enough to know about any of the early days of the hobby, but I definitely see this coming up the most as a complaint...
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No… again, I don’t care if you like it or not. But the way in which you describe it… the reasons you give for not liking it, contain...
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I think it is less a focus of play, for sure. Like, I cannot ever see play of a narrativist game devolving into a series of standard...
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It’s not moving the goalposts. It’s a disagreement with the context someone extracted from the statement. If someone says “it’s...
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Here's a post I made over 10 years ago, that quotes a bit about how some resolution methods facilitate certain sorts of approaches to...
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So for some initial clarity: meaningfulness is something that the participants in a game experience. Then, when we talk about managing...
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So?
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That was how I felt when I saw it; the most radical thing seemed the handling of spells and the attack rolls against Reflex, Fortitude...
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I don't disagree with your assesment of many of the posts in this thread. My response was intended to be limited to your specific...
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