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Technically that is true, but like the weather, no two starting points are ever the same with the players. Appreciate the compliment...

What I do in my campaigns, structuring the world to respond to the players' choices, updating NPC agendas, tracking regional dynamics...

I’ve done something close to a controlled experiment in this hobby. I wrote two sandbox adventures, Scourge of the Demon Wolf and...

I’ve been reflecting on your recent reply. Looking at it again, I see a familiar pattern: You open with a framing that subtly...

There is no such thing as "referee's logic." Just bear with me. What we each have is our own way of reasoning about how we roleplay or...

I would like to see an example of play like I posted. I tried searching, but all I came up with were videos that may or may not have a...

Sort of. For the Want of a Nail by Sobel is written as a history book mostly focused on economics. But certainly Turtledove's and...

Thanks for the reply. But I think you’re conflating internal logic with rationality. I’m not claiming people (or NPCs) make optimal or...

I’d argue that the real world follows internal logic; we don’t always see it in real time. So-called “Black Swan” events appear...

Well, that strength does have the downside of being not necessarily interesting to others. I'm not interested in Apocalypse World...

While I generally agree with your approach (and do the same myself), I do want to point out few things: If you give them equal weight...

Agreed. More specifically, the goal should be sufficiency, or what I call "good enough." If a referee can think of a handful of...

You're misreading what I’m doing, and it’s leading you to conclusions that don’t match how my tables actually work. First, plausibility...

I mean, the focus of play in your game is still the character’s actions, right? The goals they set, how they influence the world, and...