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In AW, as I said, "Make the player's characters lives not boring" and "Be a fan of the player's characters". In Burning Wheel...

The "fundamental difference" is that there is a causal process involving the player and the fiction - the resolution of the player's...

Some of us have been trying to belabor for idk somehow like 300 pages or some bs that the original example of "how do you fail forward a...

Nor does it in my example. The runes show a way out; but the character doesn't know that yet. The character tries to read them, hoping...

It is talking about succeeding or failing on a roll. Also, there is an assumption in most of the posts on this thread that all that is...

Narrating psychological reasons for an outcome is one of the fun aspects of games in which players narrate their failures.

I think you are partially right about not wanting the character to look incompetent. Which, generally speaking, is a good approach, I'd...

As an aside on the crumbling cliff thing - why would we narrate such a thing in the first place? We know it's to provide a narrative...

I’m sorry… it just reminded me of something a friend of mine used to do that frustrated me. This friend of mine, he’d make some kind...

The authoring of fiction in Narrativist play is quite structured, in general. For example in DW the 'blacksmith scenario' could proceed...

Good call. I use this distinction all the time as a basic technique. One is very much in the vein of Apocalypse World where various...

Right. I posted something about this not too far upthread.

No, but as @Gimby has explained, it's collaborative. This is all agreed upon and then the roll is made to see how it goes. If the...

This is correct. Basically: 1. Player says what their character does and what they are trying to achieve. 2. GM either says that...

It's not an example of "narrativist games". It's an example of MHRP/Cortex+ Heroic. Apocalypse World is a "narrativist game" - as...