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Even in OSR games, oftentimes the answer IS on your character sheet. There's nothing wrong with engaging with the mechanics of the game...

If your game gives players a sheet full of stuff to look at, but relying on that sheet creates unsatisfying play, either you built the...

For what it's worth - maybe not much - your play seems to me to include narrativist inclinations/tendencies, using the 5e D&D chassis...

I'm not seeing rising conflict across a moral line. Here is my example, from upthread: I haven't spelled out any rising conflict, but I...

I remember when I was running a game for entirely new players/friends in the middle of the 2020 “everybody’s online” period they kept...

Right. As some internet rando once said, if all your formal rules do is structure your group's ongoing agreement about what happens in...

Gotta say, this thread is going to make for an incredible resource for an academic paper on the fragility of the Gamer Personality(tm)...

Again, I think this is mostly just semantics. My point is it’s not problematic in a game where it’s an expectation. And if loss of...

I'm not seeing the rising conflict across a moral line.

I think you’ve missed the point. If you have “that guy” pushing for a roll without doing anything to inform the fiction, then you tell...

In the case of Pendragon, I suspect Stafford would view it that people who didn't want to engage with what he was doing fundamentally...

Because I don't want to focus on the tactical and want our focus attention on these moral flashpoints. I also just do not want to spend...

The players had to compromise in the Convince conflict. So that meant they were committed to getting the river pirates to tithe to...

OK? As I've posted ad nauseum for years, it is possible to play narrativist AD&D, although I think the resolution rules are a bit shaky...

Yes… that’s my point. If I say that modern conventional wisdom should be X, where X is something fr games you consider narrativist, you...