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Ohh that's a good framing! Yeah, this. This is why I ask questions of the players and the world and leave where that's going to go open...

Of course the language is clear to you. You're the one getting to define all the terms and then shoot down any terminology that might...

Sorry, but that timeline is 100% a story. It's the barebones story of the history of the land. Referee=story teller. Again...

Ok. Let's walk through this. Who created the caravan route? Who creates the caravans that ply this route? Who created the bandits on...

Lore IS plot. There is no difference here.

None. A GM is always a story teller. I just don't understand the resistance to calling what we do as DM/GM's story telling. Well...

This is what is so frustrating about these conversations. Please stop rewriting the example. I wasn't talking about a random...

And yet you use the quote - If everything is X, then nothing is. So, you're using it without understanding that the whole point was it...

But, now you're changing the examples. I agree, "My car is parked in the driveway" isn't really story telling since there is no plot...

That is 100% not true. You know, with a fair degree of certainty, what will happen when the players interact with those caravan...

Oh wow, quoting Incredibles and not understanding the meaning of the quote. Sorry, story has a pretty simple definition - plot...

So, in what way, when you describe the world first - events that are going on, history, conflicts - is that not telling a story? This...

I don't think anybody in this thread has stood up and said "I consider myself to be a storyteller as GM," with the exception of "I have...

Bolded bit: Uh....no? It can also be a different thing. A thing where the GM gives the players a platform in which to tell THEIR...

I certainly do see a contradiction, yes. The former, as I read it, says: Absolutely NO storytelling, at all, whatsoever. Nothing story...