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I don't think I agree. The players are attempting to get their characters through the challenge successfully. They are simply operating...

What I'm saying is that 'Skill Challenge' is not a diegetic construct. Characters do not look around and say "boy, I'm in a skill...

Well, lets not overemphasize that. I'll take the example of Dungeon World, since I am running it now. The players, before creating...

What examples were you thinking of? Because this isn't my experience.

I don't think this characterisation of narrativist games as relying on players being uninterested in a particular outcome is correct. I...

I don't even understand you. Why are you playing a game at all? I am playing one for the same reasons, because the structure of the game...

Yeah, if for some reason a challenge is entirely fictionally inappropriate, then there's no challenge! That could result from some PC...

Just for the sake of clarity: am I right that you've got in mind that the whole "shorter path" idea only makes sense if the GM is making...

I will summon @thefutilist on this: I think that one point thefutilist has made in previous posts is to contrast the relatively "closed"...

So, there was discussion of In a Wicked Age and 'agendas' (best interests to use IaWA terminology). I think we then have some hybrid...

And reactions. The reactions bit is vital for solo play.

Here’s the types I think we’ve covered so far: Map-and-key Draw a map, fill it with content. Where the players go, there is where the...

I mentioned Classic Traveller trading play upthread, but didn't put it in the context of GM-less play. Which is something the rules...

Both Moldvay and Mentzer have rules for monsters' reactions. There is no stipulation of monsters always attacking, except in specific...

Yeah, and you mentioned that complexity is essentially a matter of determining the overall weight of the events contained within the...