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A bottle episode adventure is a railroad now? Wild. Nah, unless you took them from what they were trying to do and made them go to the...
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Not @Crimson Longinus but I'll take a guess: the question is whether - in the clocks example - you're looking at the state of the...
Feb 6, 2026
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Unfortunately, without knowing anything more about Joe's established character history and personality this can't really be answered...
Feb 6, 2026
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OK, fair enough. Makes sense except for one thing: for me, the two bolded bits are in direct conflict. Organically playing the...
Feb 6, 2026
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Mostly from that being of a full character (in the literary sense) and looking at ourselves. We goof up all the time. Sometimes due...
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There has to be more to it than that, I'd think, else this is just a rewording of the basic granular play loop common to all RPGs...
Feb 6, 2026
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My own personal experience with this is that while I might sometimes get a sense of some pending thing happening, the achieved accuracy...
Feb 6, 2026
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Glad to hear that, particularly the bolded. How does this square, however, with the [paraphrased] "players lean into the consequences...
Feb 6, 2026
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Just a quick aside for those reading this thread and unfamiliar with what might be termed more "narrative" games so that a wrong...
Feb 6, 2026
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Depends on scale, too. In any moment of play it's fairly safe to assume I (and, I'd expect, nearly all players nearly all of the time)...
Feb 5, 2026
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This is exactly the doublethink I can't seem to do that these games require. Do I or do I not have a goal I am trying to achieve? If I...
Feb 5, 2026
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If trying to avoid consequences is what the character would reasonably do in the fiction then that's what I'll usually have it do...
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I don;t like Human centric AD&D method of making Humans "special" by making everyone else suck. But I agree with the thinking here...
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