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Yes, you continue to fail to understand how these things are directly related. Nothing new at all!

I think one of the strange things is that sometimes metacurrencies are just currencies. There is nothing meta about Willpower in World...

I do agree with this sentiment. I have no strong opinions on its value, but fail forward is just a technique and it can be misused or...

So, in games were intent is meaningful, I expect two things. That the intention is the character's diegetic intent and not the player's...

I know @hawkeyefan touched on this, but I don't see why it couldn't just be noted as part of the character and the GM factors it into...

But why would I take an action that violated the game I was running? Don't you think it's more likely that I'm running the game such...

Yet there are other, different, people who find those games to be too "boardgamey". The variance in perception is kinda wild.

I've always found it weird that metacurrencies are considered a narrative mechanic. Their meta-narrative nature always distinguished...

I read it again. Here's what you said: Take a look at the bolded. Note that the italics on the word "characters" was yours. That's...

Sure. Know what I've never done? Expressed that my opinion is that your GMing is poor. It's crap and if anyone of the narrativists...

Yeah, the little "Imo" at the end doesn't really do much. "In my opinion, your way of doing things is poor DMing" isn't much better...

No, you've seen plenty of clarifications on fail forward in this thread. Or at least, I would have expected you to... many were in...

I don't think it's all that important a distinction, but for me it's about who determines the premises we're exploring through play...

I don't know, really. I have asked people to share examples of this Doylist influence a player has that would be specific to narrativist...

This is very much of an issue of framing though. The sentence "I failed to climb the cliff in the time I needed" is not an...