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Not quite. The players are free, as their characters, to do anything within the setting, constrained only by their character’s...

Which is why good-faith discussions about different approaches are invaluable. While I may not share the same creative goals as Blades...

That’s accurate, but not the whole story. Some of us never stopped using those methods. Over time, we gained experience both in...

You think this thread is long, you see the debate over whether SeeLowe the German invasion of Great Britian, can be successful over on...

The key distinction isn’t that I sometimes choose an outcome that’s interesting. It’s that I only choose from outcomes that are...

Sometimes the analysis yields a unique outcome, and sometimes it doesn’t. It depends on the circumstances, the character’s capabilities...

I already replied to another post about how plausibility works with fun, not against it; it's just a different kind of challenge. The...

The players are in the living world sandbox because they want to experience a different kind of challenge.

because when you have multiple equally plausible options competing you can defer the decision criteria to a secondary concern between...

In some more recent posts, he has talked about having regard to what would be interesting. And has endorsed some modes of "meta-agency":

Since you missed it the first time, here is the complete post I made about how I use plausibility. The comparison of plausibility is...

I looked it over. A lot of it is perfectly clear, but there are some areas that I’m not sure what happened. I’ve quoted those below...

Some further thoughts on my Living World Sandbox campaign as a result of working on my actual play writeup. 1) People, Not Plot, Drive...

I appreciate the compliment. Among other things, one of Blades in the Dark’s creative goals is outlined like this: And the main...