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I think the issue here is the difference between simple task adjudication and Narrativist 'fiction resolution'. Even in AW I'd like to...

So there are a few ways to look at this. First, have all those factors actually been set already? The weather and the location of...

I was at a workshop last week with a colleague who is a professor of constitutional law. (At an Australian university.) She has a...

A desire to understand the greater world around us? Knowledge for its own sake? I mean, I know all 50 US state capitals despite the...

I was thinking of Chekhov's gun before I read your post. The difference, I would say, is that in the sort of play Harper is describing...

This has nothing particular to do with the game or its rules but with fiction. Essentially Harper's arguing for an equivalent of...

I look at it this way. Saying "this technique works if you use Assumption A. This same technique fails if you Assumption B." is...

I know it's intended as a joke, but philosophers are notoriously unfunny - your only evidence for existence of most places in the world...

To be honest, I'm just taking other people's word for it that Australia is real. :)

I don't know what you mean by "game incentive", if you mean something other than reasons why a player in a game might do something. If...

Again, if you want other posters to stop asking me questions, please take that up with them.

I will note that the suggestion spell in the OP didn't impact the dragon, just his associate. I mean...its that where we want the save...

I don't know what you're getting at here. I don't see why I'm obliged to run a game about screaming cooks to satisfy you and other...

The game incentive for checking if anyone is awake in the house is the same as the game incentive for declaring any other action - which...

When talking about fiction-first games the fiction refers to the shared/established fictional situation the table has agreed upon. It...