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We played a session of Torchbearer 2e yesterday afternoon. In attendance were 3 players, and so we had 3 PCs: Telemere the Elven...

Gygax has an example of it in his DMG (in the discussion of PCs constructing strongholds). So I would say not all that radical.

"Mechanic" is cognate with "machine". Something being mechanical means it happens via a process that doesn't require discretion or...

This is the "vanilla narrativist" hypothesis. I am (or at least have been) an instance of the type, as I've often posted about including...

No worries, and thanks! Well, what you described was more specific than "adding to the setting" - you said " the GM said: 'It is a...

Well, in some ways its not. If you see them as similar or same, then I don't have much more to add. My point was to merely debunk how...

Yes, exactly this.

Players can add color to the setting without having any measurable impact on where things go. Like taking a sheet of paper with an...

Lots of games get called narrative games for a variety of reasons. The only real unifying principle is that they structured differently...

If/when I need to think about it more formally I consider all characters as a priority stack. So it would look something like. Jim...

I'm not sure if by "older D&D" you mean AD&D 2nd ed, or classic D&D of the KotB/WPM/beat-the-dungeon type play. The reason that I ask is...

Thanks heavens I wasn't trying to frame a definition of games you like then, as I would have failed quite thoroughly.

Burning Wheel assumes that the players and GM will work together establishing setting context, starting situation and unfolding...

This is why, upthread, I posted that "I find the use of "PbtA" as if it were an informative label pretty hopeless too. . . . I don't...

Unless "the conversation" means simply working within a shared fiction, then I don't think I agree with this. The last time I played...