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If the rule is roll the dice only when either outcome of a roll is interesting, then how can it be implausible that every roll results...

Player: Hey… can I have gathered herbs while we were traveling from Luskan to Neverwinter? GM: Sure, you’d have had plenty of time...

A) I was trying to communicate how the game I run the most tries to address those concerns/points you raised, such that it avoids...

Right. This is why, upthread, I posted this: As you say, if the dice are only being rolled when interesting things can happen either...

You said it was it's implausible that something interesting happens every time we roll the dice. I responded with why in Stonetop, we...

My Stonetop campaign went for over two years. Biweekly sessions, so probably wound up at 65ish sessions. Great game.

Let's recast this a bit: when I run Stonetop, we roll the dice because we are doing something interesting, there's an obstacle of some...

Not that PBTA design precludes this. We do an awful lot of setting discovery in Stonetop, it's a core component of the Agenda and...

I just found this on DnDBeyond: The Social Contract of Adventures You must provide reasonably appealing reasons for characters to...

Wouldn't this depend, at least in part, on the rule that tells you when to roll the dice?

Yes yes you’re extrapolating. And in the many years since the place was built, with the many subsequent inhabitants that you’ve decided...

Why would "nothing happens" be the only or uniquely good narration that is possible?

I'm not sure how you think giving examples of bad narration shows that good narration isn't possible.

I've never said it's a bad thing. A lot of posters in this thread, though, have denied that it is a thing (outside of the context of...

Many accounts of some "narrative games" (your term, not mine) have been given in this thread. I've posted a lot about Burning Wheel. I...