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Ellen Kort has passed. http://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/local/2015/04/21/community-remembers-kort-compassion-insight/26124203/

I'm surprised to see Agent Carter and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. not auto-renewed. I've enjoyed both Elementary and Forever and would be sad to see them get cancelled.

Nope. GMs in a Roleplaying Game respond to players actions all the time by telling them the consequences of their actions and describing to them more information based on what the characters can access. GMs often have to run their games on the fly and introduce story elements (setting details...

Naw, I'm no Forge-ist, nor someone who wants to do more than discuss RPGs and their offshoots more precisely to avoid many of the misconceptions and miscommunications that crop up from folks using the same exact words to describe a broad range of games and experiences. In point of fact, I have...

Doug Buffone has passed. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-former-bear-doug-buffone-found-dead-at-home-20150420-story.html

Therein lies part of the problem with these discussion. While many games (including various versions of D&D) might have a roleplaying game at their core (or some games might have roleplaying games facets), and print it right on the cover/box, they can be and often are very different games...

It's similar to how the best actors will tell you great performances arise, by them staying in the moment, listening to their scene partners, and reacting honestly according to their characters. The story that naturally develops from such game play by the players and the GM (in the part of the...

This brings up another problem that crops up when discussing Roleplaying Games. SB and RR aren't really styles of play but rather types of games. They both have a Roleplaying Game core or ancestor (depending on how far they have moved from that core). This is similar to how Storytelling Game...

Ah, you rang? ;) http://www.rpgnow.com/product/128535/Toeffrun-Creation-Myth--An-RPG-Pantheon

You've added other things in beside "Setting" and muddied the waters but, yes, there is still always a difference between something that happens based on the players' decisions and something that is going to happen based on what the GM plans. The first is a Roleplaying Game where the players'...

I'm only lining up what they are saying with what they are doing. Can you delineate what you are calling a "linear AP" and what you are calling a "sandbox?" Not just by name but in the details you feel are active in each example?

Thanks for clarifying what you meant. However, it does leave what WotC means a bit up in the air but that becomes more clear based on what they publish, how restrictive it is to free form roleplaying, and whether or not it is more setting-oriented or scene-by-scene designed stories through...

It may be he is describing his experience imprecisely. It may be what he calls story is actually story elements, which include setting, NPCs, etc., and that he is describing that as a story when it might be more precisely described as a potential-story-in-the-making. If what he actually is...

I think you're close. I think the term Roleplaying Game gets misused (or misapplied) even more often than "story."

I have a setting and the players explore it while in character as part of the Roleplaying Game I run. What comes of it as a story happens in retrospect based on the decisions they make as players of characters.

I think it depends more on how loose your definition of story might be. Everything is a story if it is conveyed as such, and one only has to encounter anyone who wants to tell you about their character to understand that. But it is a matter of goals and with RPGs story is not so much a goal as...

Story is a goal of a Storytelling Game but a byproduct of a Roleplaying Game.

NSFWish? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7eO-HO7GLI

Some fun encounters with a dangerous Kobold - http://www.rpgnow.com/product/51605/Sourcebook-Kobolds-3rdLevel-Barbarian-Encounters