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Fair enough. I suspect non-book readers will miss out on Dunk's internal monologue which IMO adds a lot, unless the show figured out a...

It should be lighter in tone and smaller in scale; that's the appeal of the stories -- a look at the common people, not continent-wide...

I'm not saying you are, but I if the result is the same what difference does it make if one is called "mechanic" and the other "core...

Please tell me what the meaningful difference is to you. Obviously I don't see it, since the result in both cases is the same.

To the bolded: those are mechanics IMO, only at a top level rather than a specific rules level.

When you say "steer(s) the narrative", is that intended to mean something different than, say, "drive(s) the fiction" would? I ask...

I think this really depends on the type of players you have at your table. I have some players who're very active and will pursue leads...

It sounds like you just don't care for traditional games and traditional GMing styles. As you say, that's just a personal, subjective...

Ok I’ll have to double check. If all the sign language is towards the dad than that tracks, but I thought some of the other Betazoids...

What are the categories you're saying can't be distinguished between? As I read you, it sounds like you have one called "trad" and one...

If the game tells you how to apportion authorial control, I don't see how that is effectively different than mechanics in the game doing it.

What I mean is that, regardless of how they do it, mechanics that all shift authorial control from the GM to the players to some degree...

Specific mechanics are a major way playstyles are deliniated, as they affect "the conversation", as you call it. And different ways to...

I think there is a lack of specificity to the discussion that is making it hard to be precise. When I say 'unbridgeable', I mean there...

You can't deny, however, that despite how different those games are from each other (and I'm not denying that), they all make moderate...