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I guess it’s time to reset the ‘days since Wizards did something miserably oppressively joyless and then claimed it was a mistake when...

First print proof has been shipped, which means this is going much more smoothly than last time; I should have it in a week or so and...

I'm none of these people, but I'm definitely in the other camp, so I'll take a shot. It's obviously conditional, and starts with the...

What I've found is that if you're both playing to find out what happens. Then fiat is fine as long as it's seen as living world + choice...

Indeed. Not quite accurate. Regardless, my point about what is and isn't a real mystery stands. Now if you feel, (and I think you do)...

That you have rules and procedures for who invents what doesn't mean you're not collaboratively inventing a mystery story rather than...

I'm pretty sure that compared to mystery solving and exploration in trad(ish) games whole narrativism is an incredibly tiny niche.

It's certainly real deduction though. Like, Clue's gameplay is certainly weird, and I think you can get better deductive structures in...

I'm not sure "we" is a coherent group here. I'm solidly against the rule zero concept in a way others in that same category probably...

Here's some stuff I've said about ludic agency that I think might be driving at the point you were making @thefutilist Dealing with...

I've written some stuff about "ludic agency" before to try and differentiate this divide before, but I'm not sure that's your precise...

I actually don't think me, you or Micah care about agency at all. As it's conceived of by many of the Narratavists in this thread. I'm...

There is that, but there is also more. Having agency means being able to make meaningful choices. So completely blind left-or-right...

I simply don't recognize that as agency. If a choice can be seamlessly replaced with a die roll, it's meaningless and should not have...

Unless there's some further possible action you could take to gain more information, then I don't see a difference between a player...