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Right, so note this statement at the bottom of page 187: "To achieve your goals, use GM Actions guided by your GM Principles (detailed...

Looking at that specific section (Create an atmosphere of enquiry) I'm not seeing anything that isn't widely applicable. To me, it's...

Referring back to Blades, which is what I'm familiar with, I chose to run the game and set it in Doskvol because I was interested in...

You’re basically saying that because I made the setting, everything I do is just my opinion, that nothing I decide can be fair or...

We’ve gone over this before—my earlier posts lay out the procedural differences clearly enough for anyone interested. No need to...

I think design definitely can be guided largely by emotion but that isn’t really what is being said here in most cases. I base my design...

Sure, why not? The history of the creative arts is full of debates over this kind of tension. Take the classic example of the...

I don't believe this is in dispute. (At least not if we accept that anything in the setting that defines the plausible was put there by...

I’m concerned with both sets of goals. Read what I actually wrote before asking a loaded question. Every system has creative goals and...

I’m not sure I can parse this. Was this meant to be a further reply to the original thread? Obviously my output isn’t a model of...

As I mentioned in a subsequent post, the explanation of play to find out found in Blades in the Dark feels quite similar to my existing...

I think some nuance was lost in the course of the discussion. You will find people who say maintaining setting continuity is essential...

So I think that "having a mental model" is both a) a pretty dang common term and b) not terribly inaccurate for what we're doing when we...

Sure, and in many ways it may inform the overarching design of the game itself then moment to moment play. Like, we have the Stress ->...

Fair enough. I didn't really get that as an important distinction from my time with Blades, but that may just be because (as mentioned)...