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Yet maybe she would: "Despite the crumbly rock and unsure footing, you make it to the top....". This narration efficiently does two...

I'm thinking the bad design is that the chest that can't be smashed open because it will cause the grenade to explode or something...

So, to sum up the now-legendary break into the house scenario, we have: --- a thief or burglar about which nothing is known (species...

Unless you can destroy the chest, unscrew the lock from the chest, take the hinges off the chest, or somehow use magic (there's many...

And that is the thing - when any rule system come in contact with a human GM that really know their stuff, the best it can hope to do is...

What's that line about the best weapon being the weapon you never have to fire?

Why is it unhelpful and confusing to analyze play from the perspective of an independently real world?

Also perfectly fine to change specific rules if you don't like them. I do it all the time.

Yeah, certainly. I think the narrative systems give players more agency, separate from their characters, to change the fiction, and I...

Where I consider it poor play by the players. If nothing happens, it's on them to find or create a way to make something happen. Only...

The play was hectic at times for the players but sure didn't seem so for him. :) If he talked much about prior runs of the game I...

Something I found interesting about @Hussar's viewpoint is that it seemed formalist. Formalism says that the game is only played if it...

Exactly. I'm reading a book at the moment - an enjoyable story so far other than that the amount of contrivance, where the protagonists...

I want to pull out this example, because I think it is even more clear than the cook one and comes from actual play. I get what you are...

Revitalize?