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I am interested in that, did you answer it in one of your previous posts?
May 18, 2025
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I don't know if we're just circling back because I could have sworn we talked about this a bit earlier, anyway. I would consider the...
May 18, 2025
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I still have a post coming where I lay out my thoughts and address some of your previous responses but this is interesting. I think...
May 18, 2025
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Eh, as far as I can make out @SableWyvern and @Bedrockgames are Narrativists. They like the drama stuff and play is emergent. That's my...
May 18, 2025
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I've got a longer reply I can make but if I add: Situation play So we have: adventure based, scene based, sandbox, situation, does that...
May 18, 2025
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What's a scene based adventure?
May 18, 2025
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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...
May 18, 2025
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I have conversations in the first person but not exclusively. I describe what the characters doing, their facial expressions and so on...
May 18, 2025
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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...
May 18, 2025
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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...
May 18, 2025
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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...
May 18, 2025
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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...
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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 -...
May 17, 2025
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@zakael19 answered a lot of this already. Here's some small snippets from the book that point toward the general attitude. In order...
May 17, 2025
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Striving for impartiality - play to find out what happens Pinning down details before choices are made - clocks Letting players trash...
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