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How is it demeaning to point out that Battletech can't easily be played as a narrativist RPG? It's a bare statement of fact. And I don't...

It means the characters fit the situations - they have a stake in them, care about how they turn out, have some internal conflicts...

As in "fit for purpose". The character must be able to meaningfully engage in the conflict that is arising across a moral line. Just as...

I'm telling you what actual goal he had, in the actual play of the game that I'm reporting on. There is no "simulation" to be broken. A...

Narrativist play is not hard to achieve. All the table has to do is (i) establish a moral line, and (ii) allow the players to establish...

But at the table they don't change. They become more precisely specified. OK. I'm not familiar with that usage of the phrase.

Why not read what has been said by one of the greatest designers of RPGs intended to support narrativist play? I quoted it upthread, but...

The hero we deserve, but not the hero we need.

Except in combat? When everything - the time sequence of actions ("stop motion" initiative), the nature and consequences of actions...

OK, you got me. 15,000+ posts of a slew of trad GMs oozing 'I own this part of the game' and you post a quote from John Harper that...

They are not the same thing. Your failure to distinguish them is why I say that you seem unable, in your analysis of RPGing, to...

No. You really need to stop twisting things people say to justify your pearl clutching. I said that when we look at someone attempting...

Huh? The game system has a rule for killing Orcs. The player invoked it. In MHRP, the game system has a rule for the player...

What I'm saying is, you constructed a system that no one here would use or defend. Meaning, the difference was manufactured by that...

It seems to me that you have created your own problem by inserting this assumption when it is not, generally speaking, true? That is, I...