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So, I find that depends on who's definition of "narrativist play" you are talking about. I mean, we don't even all agree on what "narrativist" means... You seem to be positioning "assured" as a requirement, which I don't think I agree with. And, there you have a solid example of what I...

Metacurrencies are often considered narrative, because you use them not to do the best manipulation of the rules (which would be gamist), and are instead used to make the resulting story turn out as you want it.

Yeah. The Cryptids version of Horrified, for example, includes the Chupacabra. Beating it requires you gather goats, which don't exist in the Universal Monsters set.

I made no such extrapolation.

So, in our group, that would have worked to establish a justification for spending XP in Strength or Stamina later, but would not have made the magical working coincidental. Coincidence is about what local observers would see at the time you do something that defies the dominant paradigm. What...

No, it was just you. We were just all in on it. +10 to paranoia.

I understand the point, but feel it important to note that that's NOT how addiction works. Addiction is not about how good the world is. It is about chemical vulnerabilities of our nervous systems. People have been getting drunk, high, and stoned, and addicted to the substances that produce the...

Oh, Mage. Yes, back in grad school I played in a Mage: the Ascension Chronicle that lasted for years. Probably the best tabletop RPG campaign I've ever been in. Mind you, I came out of it feeling that Mage: the Ascension was both the best RPG, and also the worst, depending on who was running...

The other versions of Horrified are fun, light, cooperative games. So, I'm looking forward to it.

What. You think you're Charlie Cale, or something?

So, this past week, my wife received what amounted to a Nigerian Prince spam... through regular US Mail. It was a little different. It claimed there was a Dr. (for sake of this post) Smith, who had died, and left behind a life insurance policy for tens of millions of dollars, but had no known...

Good, because I like your work and would feel awful for putting you off. As others have noted, the Promotions/Press would be a fine place to pit links to things you want to promote. And if you have any questions, @Dannyalcatraz and I are Moderators here, and @Morrus owns the place. You can...

Oh, geeze, no, I hadn't! My apologies!

With some exceptions around online play for the pandemic, I'm usually the GM, and don't get to play much at all. I grab occasions for one-shots as I can. I've recently started an "RPG of the month" series to run one-shots of some of them.

I feel like this has the goalpost sliding a little bit. For some of the people here, especially in this discussion, the style of games they are willing to play or run is very narrow. Saying that they don't run games in a style they don't care for is a narrow statement. Me? I'm well on...

Ultimately, once the idea came up, it is probably equally both.

I'm similar. I run the games that please my players. There's a ton of stuff out there I'm interested in playing that my usual players aren't.

This one looks a lot like there was a Hollywood party one night, and Dinklage said, "Hey, folks, this looks like it could be a blast! Just letting loose where nobody will give a damn! Who is with me!?!"

Any and every social event can be a good release/break from 'everything else'. Anything from going out for drinks on Friday, to having a BBQ, to game nights and gaming sessions - if it is sufficiently friendly and engaging, you're set to help people's quality of life.

I think the big places to put fanfiction these days are "An Archive of Our Own" (aka AO3) and "FanFiction.net" (aka FFN). I would not suggest mixing reference to your own works for sale, and fanfic that you cannot sell, because you don't own the rights.