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They used plastic all over the place. They just didn't have plastic bottles and bags. And they used plenty of toxic chemicals and materials as well (lead, asbestos, coal, DDT--which they even sprayed on kids), threw trash all over the place, and so on, all of which caused horrific pollution that...

Yeah, OK, but if they (generic they here) are actively messing up the game because they can't or won't agree to the tone and rules, then I doubt that the good things they bring to the game matter, because they're making the game unplayable, or at least unfun.

I thought I was pretty clear. If you can't get players to agree to the rules and tone of the game, to the point that you can't play the game, why play with them.

If the people you play with won't act like adults to the point you can't actually play some games with them, why game with them at all?

That's why a major part of narrative games is the idea that the players are working together with the GM to create the story, and as part of session 0 discuss you the tone of the game. If you don't want the players going for silly ideas, say that right away.

I'm not sure that they would need to get rid of the environmental message. They could alter it so that it's less "people in charge" and more just as a byproduct of magic, and say that even common folk using magic caused harm, but... I'm not sure that they need to. Or should. This one is actually...

I'm thinking about doing it for my group only because we play via discord, and while nobody at my table is an intentional spotlight hog, with discord's tiny internet box it can be hard to see others' body language that indicates they're ready to take their turn.

It depends on what those aspects are and what game they're in. And if the PC can create aspects, then that does not contradict with "only using the abilities that PC has at their disposal" because creating aspects would be an ability they have at their disposal. The other thing, as has been...

I'm going to guess that these were pretty short cliffs and banks, if you were a kid, not the twenty, fifty, hundred, or even thousand-foot cliffs that PCs are going to climb.

Since you've played D&D, you should know what they're talking about--the GM didn't decide ahead of time what the runes were, and the player didn't roll to see if their deductions were correct. In effect, the player said "I want these runes to be beneficial," made a roll, and it turned out their...

Meh. Almost any game with any sort of options to it can be played any way. Even the least gamist, most narrativist/simulationist gamer alive might get so angry at an in-game enemy that they begin to optimize ways to defeat them, even if only by taking narrative traits. Even the most gamist gamer...

There's an optional rule that gives everyone a set number of action tokens per "round" (suggestion of three). To take an action, you spend a token. When you've spent all your tokens, you can't take any more actions until everyone else is also out of actions. Then everyone gets three more tokens...

Ooh. I'm making a bunch of monsters myself, but there's always room for more. I'll have to wait to see what the art is like though, first.

For me, fae are elevated nature and reduced gods--and I do like the 5e lore of some of them being incarnate emotions--but above all, a reflection, or for some, a mockery, of humanity. They are non-creative, as they lack that ability. But they can and do copy, if not always perfectly. So fae have...

@Neonchameleon, the point is, 4e didn't interest me for several reasons. My view on dryads and fae in general (which believe me, can get pretty dark) and they way 4e presented them (which goes against it) are just one aspect of it. Again, I'm not saying it's a bad game. I'm saying it's not to my...

OK. I get it, and that makes sense. But there's nothing about PbtA or narrativist games that contradicts that, other than that the PCs get to help create certain aspects. And those aspects are probably not the ones you would want to keep secret. In most of these games, what the players create...

Well, I never said the PCs had to be the most important part of the world, did I? But lets go with you: What does it mean, exactly, for the setting to be the focus?

Nope, not at all. But if the entire point of the game is to explore your setting, then it sounds more like a project for someplace like r/worldbuilding.

That just means the setting itself is an NPC.

I dunno; that was a pretty unique band of monster hunters. It's just that most modern day supernatural isn't written in an epistolary style.