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In a nutshell, whats being described is a means of generating a living world thats easily managed in tabletop. You can have NPCs off doing quests and, well, "living" with little to no overhead other than some more robust notes than the typical and a Calendar. The Calendar runs off of the strict...

PART II: Refining, Implementing, and First Observations So it's been a hot minute, and I've been plugging away at this. Attached is the current draft of what was described, with some of my refinements and initial observations already integrated. Also attached is the full "Adventuring" document...

Don't be afraid of or prejudicial towards resources talking about video game design. Game design is a lot more universal than many are willing to give it credit for, and the fact that most writers are aiming for the more financially lucrative video game industry doesn't mean their insights do...

The reason I think game narratives are unconventional is rooted in two levels. On one level, the narratives events are experienced first-hand by the player. Even though its largely the same story, playing as Harry Potter is very different from reading the books, despite them mostly being from...

If your character has any characteristics whatsoever prior to the game starting, that is a story being told. Doesn't matter if you made it up ad-hoc or if it was procedurally generated as part of chargen. A backstory IS a narrative and it is, again, dishonest to try to argue otherwise because...

Yes, that is all narrative and its intellectually dishonest to try and say otherwise. If thats how you're starting then its clear what my next step is.

I find it fascinating that you're pretending to not know sandboxes exist. Dward Fortress and Wildermyth beg to differ, as does the entire concept of emergent narratives driven by systemic design. Hell, even in its own limited way, Bannerlord and its predecessors have a bone to pick here too...

As stated, theres more than one kind of problem we can tie to these issues, and whether or not we're using one or the other is entirely besides the point. After all, I'm positive beyond all reasonable doubt you and everyone else in this topic has made the criticism of 5e that it doesn't...

And you seem hesitant to provide an answer, in plain unambiguous language, to the question of what the aims are. And? This doesn't address anything in the quote its attached to. Thats a clear contradiction, to be frank. A concept is still a narrative, unless we're working off the definition...

Yes, it is. The only cases where that doesn't apply is when Fantasy isn't a part of the game (as we see with most Sports as well as classical games like Go), or at minimum is weak to the point of non-existence. (Chess) And to be clear, this is what I mean by Fantasy: And in fact, this whole...

Game Design is Game Design, and ludonarrative dissonance/harmony isn't specific to any particular game medium. Yes, different games with fundamentally different Content are different, and between those three, many of (though not all) the mechanics are also different This is why its important...

This really does just reinforce my point. Did and do we really need "new" games just because a lot of RPGs (re: virtually all of them, even the better ones, given the clear denial that half or even more of the point is improv) are terrible at actually teaching how to play and run them? The...