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Right. I posted something about this not too far upthread.

No, but as @Gimby has explained, it's collaborative. This is all agreed upon and then the roll is made to see how it goes. If the...

I don't know what sort of lottery you have in mind. I didn't specify any particular sort, but if we want to get very particular about it...

It seems like the game might be more interesting if the fiction actually included the stuff that you're saying it doesn't.

In the course of looking for an account of some Burning Wheel play from 10 years ago, I found this post of mine, which discusses the...

Upthread, @thefutilist posted this example - or pair of contrasting examples: The example gets its force in part by resting on an...

A magical ability is a die-rated ability like any other. Correct. That's part of the action declaration. Correct. (If you want to be...

I don't know what you're talking about here. I've been making posts about different sorts of frameworks for action declaration, and...

I already answered this upthread: consequences of actions in MHRP/Cortex+ Heroic are rated in dice sizes. There is no Asset bigger than...

I don't think the artha system of BW is doing what you say here. Artha is a largely metagame framework.It lets the player (and thus...

A term that Edwards used in a video a few years ago is "furniture" (vs "people"), which I think gets at something in the neighbourhood...

Yeah I just found it amusing that you independently created a very similar demarcation. In GNS speak: Crumbly rocks is color, the...

You probably picked up using the word color from conversations around GNS, which does have different categorisations for this stuff...

It's not an example of "narrativist games". It's an example of MHRP/Cortex+ Heroic. Apocalypse World is a "narrativist game" - as...

Huh? 4e D&D is the most coherent version of the game since Moldvay Basic. And while it does have some awkward parts (eg DEX-based...