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This is fail forward. You continue to ignore clarifications on what fail forward means and instead continue to work with your flawed...
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Yes, I find that equally ridiculous. The characters in most of my narrativist games tend to be at least as substantive as any in my trad...
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And again, you're out of your depth. You have clearly never participated in Narrativist play, as your characterization of how it works...
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I don't know BitD or Vampire well-enough to answer. I've GMed a fair bit of Classic Traveller over the past several years. I think it...
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I may or may not. I mean, as has been discussed, failure on a climb check could mean a number of things. So, if a PC falls, they may...
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Tuovineni is a self-identified lover of simulationism. He doesn't reject himself! I am a self-identified simulationist, in that I have...
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Yes, it is a change. It's not a direct violation of the integrity of the roll, though. This is a perfectly valid way to handle the...
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As I've posted not far upthread, the player doesn't decide what the runes say.
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Even this is not quite correct. The player said, as their PC, "I will try and decipher these runes, hoping that they will reveal a way...
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You have attributed something to @hawkeyefan which I said. And the reason I spoke about MHRP/Cortex+ Fantasy Heroic is because that was...
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Huh? It seems to me pointless to try and talk about "PbtA" as a class. That would be liking talking about all games that involve...
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If a player has to first sort of explore the setting through their character and often will have to engage in unrelated matters to...
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It was @TheFirebird who introduced the discussion of "winning", not me, and who suggested that the players in the games I've posted...
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It seems obvious to me that if the GM embodies the setting, the players are not at full liberty to set their own goals. Or...
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This is not correct. The player expressed a hope for what the runes said. Dice were then rolled, and that hope came true. Saying that...
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