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Because it's not about the player - it's about the character, independently of who is playing them. I am fan of the characters in the...

Doing things that make sense isn't the goal. The goal is to craft an interesting story. It's hard to create an interesting story...

And I disagree with this. To me, this seems like a pretty obvious poor use of the word. If you create a definable metric of behavior...

Okay, this was the session note for the fourth of a series of related adventures with a group I called the Hexagram, which were trying...

Right. I have tried to address this in my posts to @FrogReaver. "Fail forward", to work, depends upon other "infrastructure" of play...

If there is no standard of fidelity by which the portrayal is to be judged, then it makes no sense to say the portrayal is faithful...

You can do that; you just can't call it faithful. Being faithful to your headcanon doesn't count. If you've made external declarations...

Not wild at all. You can obviously roleplay however you want. But you can't call it a faithful portrayal without being able to...

I meant a one-way relationship. There are obviously different methods to making the characters' lives not boring. One way just to have...

Not having an agenda of make the player characters' lives not boring is not the same as having an agenda of making the player...

No. You can’t faithfully portray a character without some sort of metric to measure that portrayal against. “I’m faithfully portraying...

I don’t want to get into a game of dueling anecdotes, but that hasn’t been my experience. Even the people using the new rules I’ve...

The boundary between "I'm an expert" and "I know more than you" in presentation is blurry and often dependent on the relative confidence...

It's easier than you think!

The generally frigid reception to 2024's overall banality allows me to keep hoping.