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You're shifting the goalposts here. In the post you quoted, I explicitly said: "The story is discovered through play, not authored in...

It is about your interests, your own words make that clear: You didn’t say one player, or an isolated moment. You described the entire...

I’m pointing out the inconsistency in criticizing the authority of traditional referees while giving a pass to similar practices, just...

Occasionally I'll do something like make an interesting shopkeeper that for some reason the players just love engaging with. For me...

Sometimes as DM, once you've got the ball rolling and the players have their PCs interacting with each other (sometimes over banalities...

Thanks for the clarification, but I think this cuts to the heart of the issue. You're saying that you're fine with players doing what...

Let’s not reframe the issue. The core fact remains: without you as the referee, the campaign doesn’t happen. It doesn’t matter what...

Sure, as long as it’s acknowledged that you’re putting your thumb on the scale so the campaign reflects your creative agenda as well as...

So when players are engaged in what they want to do, even if it's aimless wandering or just in-character fluff with no real stakes or...

An observation on this: in many campaigns, regardless of play style, the issue isn’t whether the players win, but how they win...

After reading up on Burning Wheel and talking to friends who’ve played it extensively since release, I’d describe it more precisely as a...

Except I didn’t mention “story arcs” or “stories planned in advance.” I referred to kinds of stories, which were raised in a discussion...

So, just like in my Living World sandbox campaigns, where I determine or roll for how the world is in motion. Eventually, the players...

He’s referring to the consequences of failure, as in, “Nothing happens when you fail to pick the lock,” not “We’re just standing around...

Noted. Those are precisely the same type of RPGs as OD&D. In both, the narrative emerges from the unfolding events of the campaign.