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And yet within a TTRPG you still have wins and losses as a part of the flow of play; only the rulebooks mostly skip over that bit. The...

They can set up the fiction any way they like but unless my character's an idiot he's going to do what he can to manipulate that fiction...

Maybe not insulting per se, but there's an overwhelming sense of someone talking down a very long academic nose to the uneducated masses...

Some expanded thoughts on stuff: First: One thing that's kinda interesting to me is that from my little perspective over here a lot of...

Because if you never suffer the occasional setback the wins don't mean much.

Because in any game someone, sometime, has to lose; and losing generally doesn't make people happy. The difference between RPGs and...

Granted that according to GNS not all games have to have one creative agenda. But the 25 years since have not shown the insights to be...

Does everyone have to be happy with the game all the time?

There's a huge difference between "winning all the time" because the game says I have to and "winning all the time" because of what I've...

Maybe so. I was thinking about how to get around dividing them on qualities relating to realism and immersion (not that I think either...

You don’t get to make that determination for them.

Narrative immersion is a specific phenomenon. For example, when reading a book one is seeing the scene being described, rather than the...

More often than you might think

Let’s try it this way. Every game that does what I described, placing both internal to character and external to character things as...

Other than forcing the players to think, which IMO is a good thing. Getting what I want all the time would become boring within the...