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Ok, I'd say it's useless without providing amplification and context. "Play like this breaks my personal immersion because..." "when I'm...

Yeah, and there's at least two sides of "paint the scene" (link to the excellent blog about this technique), right? There's "here's a...

It is possible, but campaign frames are pretty strong, thematically, and should keep stuff generally in line. Also, the players are not...

No, the GM still maintains oversight and the book has some stuff about how to consider narrative arcs / plot weaves / situations / etc...

They should consider putting that on the front cover.

I think for me, immersion is like when you are reading and the words disappear. You are still mechanically reading the words but your...

No, he was minimizing another style of play and calling it destructive. Would have rather he actually put it in the terms you say.

I never understood the immersion discussion. For me immersion is not a sign of quality of TTRPG at all, I am super rarely immersed...

100% Agreed. You can involve all of your players in narrative collaboration, some of your players, or none of your players and run the...

That's one insight I think is spot on. The fail state of a Daggerheart game is D&D 5E. Even if you ignore all the narrative-focused...

Yep. It's encouraged but not essential and I think does a great job of introducing the style. Players can ease into it, jump in with...

The thing though is Daggerheart does just fine if you dint do it.

TBH, expecting a sharp divide of Player and GM responsibilities on world-building seems short-sighted and ... maybe if people are so...

On my dying day one thing I know I will be glad of is that I will never have to hear the word "immersion" again and listen to people...

I was in a Daggerheart oneshot where the GM asked up front for each of us what our relationship to a certain NPC was, and then once that...