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It seems to me that there may be a profitable distinction to be made between: 1. We are creating story with planned direction - 'OK in...

Part of the reason for doing things in accordance with instructions or structured processes is to produce results that aren't directly...

But "follower" can mean "subordinate", or it can mean "second in line". The person at the front of a line is the leader of that line...

A thought occurs to me. If we play out a series of imaginary events, and recounting those events after the fact constitutes telling a...

Vincent Baker has an interesting blog about the relationship, in Apocalypse World play, between the core activity of "the conversation"...

To be fair I have never actually seen, or even heard of, any of the films you listed :)

I actually enjoyed Starchaser enough that I think I stopped there, figuring the movies were never going to get better...

For evolutions I like, I'm going to go back to the original D&D. It's not anything to do with the system. I'm sure there is plenty there...

Does the telling of it have to be to someone else? Does quietly remembering it afterwards make it a story?

Is a travelogue not also a story?

Though I have to note how "optional" they are is very much in the eye of the beholder.

Did the defenders never make attack rolls because they weren't strikers?

Yep. It's wilful misinterpretation. It's completely unsupported by the text. One might as well punch the other players and say 'what? it...

As some one that didn't like the roles becoming so distinctly built into the tactics of the game, this is a literal interpretation that...

Whether it be an hour within any of the movies or the middle movie as a stand alone...it's a story. They way I see RPGS bring played out...