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Ouija board roleplaying. I'm not moving the planchette, the causality of the fiction simply has an undeniable momentum of its own!

There is no causality in fiction. There is only the fiction of causality, which - of course - can be anything the author chooses which...

Yes, but for the purposes of the discussion, that's what was being discussed. These posts are like if the discussion was labeled...

Maybe don't use a lot of skill challenges then.

No I have shown that I decided, not 'the fiction' or 'the simulated world'. A man kicks a ball. It's a goal! A man kicks a ball. It...

The GM isn't expected to quantum cook some new obstacles to keep things going. The SC structure is transparent. It's a pacing tool. If...

A man kicks a ball. The ball doesn't move. A hat appears and turns into a pigeon. I have broken the laws of causality!

This is absolutely not true. 'The fiction' is our shared idea of what is happening. It isn't real. It can't 'evolve causally'. What can...

Not really. It doesn't say anything about how latent scenes/situations are established, nor how the progression of scenes/situations is...

No one is obliging you to participate in this thread!

How is this relevant to the thread topic? Are you interested in talking about alternatives to map-and-key as a way for establishing...

Right - I had an example from another thread about this Let's say we're playing 5e and the rule is that characters can move stealthily...

The guard patrol changes shift, make another stealth roll. The ground here is more gravelly, make another stealth roll. You're near the...

Sorry, missed this bit in my last reply. We’re talking about map and key resolution, right? That covers a wide swath of play…...

Wow, that’s really odd. I mentioned constraints being useful for creativity. The players decided to climb a wall rather than take...