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You've been reading this thread, right?

Hmm. Well I think your immersionst take is clear, but in this case it doesn't carry any water. There's nothing meta about clocks - they...

Sure. I was more talking about the nuances of RPG design that have rather a lot to say about how we get from A to B.

This seems to miss rather a lot of specific design goals that go into designing RPGs. I mean it's not wrong but I don't think it really...

No, they are two very different things. I'm not really concerned with how yoiks deploy the term GM fiat all willy-nilly in threads about...

Yep. The strength of the BitD approach, to me, is that everything is negotiated out in the open. The GM can't leverage "the module" or...

GM judgement and GM fiat also aren't quite the same thing.

There is a ton of GM judgement involved. If there wasn't we would not need principles about how to apply that judgement. What it is true...

I definitely don’t consider myself a “narrativist” (whatever that means to whoever you ask), I just play and run games in the way I...

I mean, if I think about illusionism I tend to associate that pretty strongly with trad play. I'm not sure what other kind of...

Yup, I'd agree. I'm going to selective in the rest of my responses. The players shouldn't really have anything to do with setting...

Here's a simple example: In Burning Wheel and Torchbearer 2e, if the consequence for a character is death, but the player of that...

The limiting obstacles and eeking out advantage is definitely a thing, but it's done not by direct reference to the mechanics, but by...

At least as a player, I tend to see Clocks as a way to focus my decision-making. Does my little dude prefer this risk or that one? I...

I don't really see clocks as a mechanism for avoiding consequences. I see them as a method for staggering the consequences out over the...