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It is talking about succeeding or failing on a roll. Also, there is an assumption in most of the posts on this thread that all that is...

This is why it's worth asking, why use resolution mechanics in the first place. What are they for? what's the fun of the game? The...

Good call. I use this distinction all the time as a basic technique. One is very much in the vein of Apocalypse World where various...

Oh yeah 100% agree.

I am aware color is a component in big model. I don't intend to invoce that beast here. Rather think of my use of it like how my young...

Yeah I just found it amusing that you independently created a very similar demarcation. In GNS speak: Crumbly rocks is color, the...

You probably picked up using the word color from conversations around GNS, which does have different categorisations for this stuff...

So, to sum up the now-legendary break into the house scenario, we have: --- a thief or burglar about which nothing is known (species...

@thefutilist and I and @hawkeyefan all discussed this upthread. A cook is implicit in a kitchen, in the same way that soldiers are...

Right, which is I think why we did see early attempts to make what the mechanics represented fictionally more transparent (We can...

Things can get weird because a lot of Narrativist best practices aren't actually best practices and what gets ported between games is...

GMs having a mental model they develop and evaluate is only more like our moment-to-moment existence as long as we are dealing with...

Because the things it says are very similar to some FKR manifestos, and there is also some overlap with "blorb" principles. To me it...

I don't really buy that for the numerous reasons the 'Nar side' has gone over. I can give you my take on what's probably happening...

To me - and with the caveat that I don't know Sorcerer all that well - this seems fairly similar to my Apocalypse World example upthread...