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This is why I've made repeated comparisons between Roberts play and my own and have pointed out how those exact preconditions created a...

Yeah, that's my default way of doing it. Some games do ask for different ways.

So by reward I mean 'type' of fun. I for instance, you're watching a few good men, there's a scene where Kaffee has to decide if he...

We're getting somewhere but you're still misunderstanding a few things. Pretend me and my group are playing 5E or whatever edition you...

This is a common misconception. All Narrativism proper refers to is a type of fun. To be reductive: A character chooses one value over...

Interesting hearing that from someone who seems to have experience with only one kind of game. Because it may not be railroading them...

Exactly this. A sandbox where the GM is making up what happens in response to the players going somewhere is faux agency because it's...

Which is why I qualified it with "more often than not." Edit: to make it clear, I'm of the opinion after having watched this dynamic in...

To me that's just normal play. I want to bring attention to something. The elements in play were: A brewing civil war An envoy who...

Here is the basic structure of a classic D&D dungeon: The GM draws a dungeon map. At it's core, it is rooms joined by corridors, with...

The last time I had to make something up where positioning details mattered in a way that was system relevant was a month or two ago. It...

I'm not sure I see them as being in conflict but if they do come into conflict then expression wins. Although I consider this pretty...

I get where you're coming from, the mechanics would create a 'put up or shut up' situation. On the other hand it just seems like the...

Chiming in again to say I think the exact opposite is true but I'm not sure I can explain why better than I have done previously. To...

I'd also expect a good chunk of Narrativist leaning people to be put off by personality mechanics as well, for the exact same type of...