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Right, I think this ties back to my post a few pages ago. If what you're doing is basically pre-creating a big swathe of content for...

I'm not sure about the amount of detail needed. I have ran a couple super successful player driven Vampire games, and they are set in a...

Don't worry about that! I don't think you are. And I always find your posts pretty interesting, although I don't know if always grasp...

If one has time to think it through in depth, e.g. between sessions, mulling over various ideas can be really inspiring. On the fly in...

I was about to point this out, but you beat me to it... ;) Overall though, this does feel like your gut reaction is similar to where I...

Well the question is, how does the event change him? I need to know how he’s changed before I make any subsequent moves. The way I...

There are generic narrativist principles that Apocalypse World doesn’t spell out that are far more important than most of the principles...

This is one of those things I’ve done a kind of 360 on. Bah the GM controls all, all role-playing is the same, just give me the...

Yeah it’s easy with gangs, which also tends to mean the combat is more zoomed out. Have you seen Vincent’s example of the fight for the...

I don't think you have to go as far as Earthdawn. Per the 4e D&D PHB (p 54): Encounter powers produce more powerful, more dramatic...

Agreed re A and C. I think there's a D, or maybe it's a variant of B, where the group expresses a view about what is/isn't possible...

Yeah contra my position on the D&D ranger from a far earlier discussion we had, currency really has to play a part in framing and...

I hate the credibility check but it took me years, and a massive shift in how I gamed, to understand why. We’ve talked a lot recently...

I also think of scenes in terms of how much "momentum"/"trajectory" carries across, and in what sort of way. In a RPG, this can include...

it gets fuzzy doesn't it. I think of scenes as involving conflicts between the characters in the scene. So a scene could take place over...