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[rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.
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Let's consider an extreme case. You know Calvinball, right? It's a game whose rules are made up as one goes. In a sense this provides...
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Not less player agency. But a changed focus of play. Rather than trying to enact their will on the world via their player character's...
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Isn't it? Maybe the phrasing isn't quite right. My experience is that trying to succeed at a task in these games becomes a game of "what...
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i feel like you must've been told several times over by now, please stop claiming no-one's explained it to you: the difference is that...
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Yeah, certainly. I think the narrative systems give players more agency, separate from their characters, to change the fiction, and I...
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In our playstyle it would be against our unwritten (see social contract) play principles for the DM to just arbitrarily decide such...
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If nothing happens prevents the game from continuing then I consider it poor GMing. The specific action you took doesn't succeed, there...
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Forcing the GM to be creative has nothing to do with why I don't like fail forward. It's about the fact that on a failure something...
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If you think the example is flawed, feel free to provide a different example.
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It's true, that game would not work for me. What I'd say is that trad gaming can work for me, under the condition that the GM is...
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I should probably just add that to my tagline - I sometimes forget to add it.
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I will note that this is just preference, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with play that has a higher metagame index. It's no...
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Absolutely. I would love it if everyone proceeded from that understanding.
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Something I found interesting about @Hussar's viewpoint is that it seemed formalist. Formalism says that the game is only played if it...
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Ok, but let's be clear on where the objection flows from. This has nothing to do with the fiction as fiction. This is an aesthetic...
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