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Bolded for emphasis. See, this is how I understood it, though I suspect there's a difference of perspective at play. So, for example...

Right. So. Absolutely none of this address what I was talking about, though. The farrier is a normal feature in a medieval settlement...

Putting myself in position of PC I didn't feel an iota of railroading. I considered a few likely options and chose to smash the window...

D&D is plenty granular for what I look for out of a game. I do tweak some things to make them a bit more realistic, or just to make...

I simply wanted to make clear I don't have access to the primary source, and found one secondary source (Harper) conflicted, in my view...

I think this is a misunderstanding of fail forward. The GM does not have to "introduce something that changes what the entire scene is...

So, I'd agree that the implication is that the runes always represented the map - whether one actually does or even can accept that, I...

The setting being predefined vs established ad hoc seems besides the point. The GM is still in control of all the things the GM is...

There's an implied setting created by a combination of the psychic maelstrom, the playbook types, the Hot and Weird stats, the sex...

I'm not sure anyone disagrees with this in principle. I certainly don't. Yes, and this is precisely what I aim for with my V:TM sandbox...

Thank you, I genuinely appreciate the sentiment.

But there is a fictional environment in which the characters - PC and NPCs alike - inhabit, even if it's a undefined post-apocalyptic...

I came to the same conclusion and am increasingly convinced that I will need curate a group of like-minded strangers to get the level of...

If the difference were just about social behavior in different settings, we wouldn’t see so many horror stories from online pickup...

Though I'll note metacurrancy that allows you to introduce new plot elements isn't the commonest case, and even in some games that...