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No it's a bit of a Rorschach test. My answer is that the Emperor falls into despair, doesn't get vengeance and neglects running his...

I have conversations in the first person but not exclusively. I describe what the characters doing, their facial expressions and so on...

Yeah I think the same is true for me, any character really, PC or NPC. In some ways it hasn't changed since I first started roleplaying...

But how do you choose for the npc's? I have a mental model of them in my head and so if it's conversation then I'm just kind of...

This is a question for anyone who wants to answer. Here's my living world V Narrativist test. Krangen is the ruler of a vast Empire...

I think @thefutilist was pointing to how clocks are used in AW front/threat design (and I think DW is similar): as part of their binding...

I think that's right. Up to this point, I want to say that the GM is the only one with authority to make them. But I want to suspend -...

@zakael19 answered a lot of this already. Here's some small snippets from the book that point toward the general attitude. In order...

Striving for impartiality - play to find out what happens Pinning down details before choices are made - clocks Letting players trash...

I see what you're saying. What I would prefer, in a conversation, would be for people to talk about the approaches they use, rather...

And as both I and @thefutilist posted - in posts to which you have not replied - this is no different from anyone else's RPGing. All...

I love it. People are going absolutely nuts over Steel tests in Burning Wheel - which is self-consciously a game focused on characters...

It seems this is true of all roleplaying games. Can you give an example of a sequence of play (however brief), or technique, where it's...

This, by the way, is why even though I've argued with a number of you in the D&D corner of this thread about some things, is one of the...

What you're describing here strikes me as radically dysfunction. Like, you turned up to play chess, I turned up to play bridge, and for...