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What we narrate in the open is stuff that is important to play that an actual person in the context would likely notice. This is made...
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Well it's not about "the story"... we're playing a game, after all... one which many people often cite things like "as long as you're...
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My experiences as both player and GM have been very different than that. I find that there can often be such discrepancies in...
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There's also a difference between not worrying as much about the divide between player and character knowledge (which is what I was...
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It's clear that you're frustrated, but I'm struggling a bit to work out what I'm missing. You seem to be taking the Tuovinen essay...
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Because like I said, the GM will never be able to provide the amount of information that would be available to the character. For the...
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My initial intuition is that there is little truth to it. As I've posted upthread, in "trad" RPGing I think there is a lot of "author"...
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Yeah, this is a very good point. Nobody is entirely in character. You are rolling dice, and listening to narration, and going around the...
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I think the problem is, who can say what would have happened in a situation, a REAL WORLD situation, that didn't happen. Lets imagine...
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Mmmkay.
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For me, I think the abundance of information of information makes me feel as informed as my character would be. It’s not necessarily...
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Max, go back and read what I was responding to. You can click on the name in the quoted bit to go back to the previous post. Then do it...
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I love how Stonetop’s end of session bakes in this emphasis on relationships, it’s so fun to pause and reflect - and it means you should...
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They weren't big deal changes in terms of how radical they were (abandoning the 6 stats, using a dice pool instead of a d20, no classes...
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He doesn't seem to think so, at least not to the point of saying he disliked them. Maybe 1e-3e didn't give him what he felt should have...
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