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I think players overcoming challenges (which is an important part of trad play, one way or another) is fundamentally incompatible with storytelling. The two just cannot coexist, as enabling one automatically undermines the other. The main thing that allows Story Now to function properly and...

I've experienced things you've described, and I wasn't even alive in the 80s. Or most of the 90s.

...and what, exactly, of what he said here is wrong?

I kinda think it would be really great if we kept this thread from turning into yet another debate about validity and possibilty of Story Now

And almost any Story Now game system that I can recall is hellbent on making the PCs goal if not unattainable, very damn hard to achieve. What a Blades PC want? To leave the life of crime behind. Never happening, the underworld will suck you back in. What an Apocalypse PC want? To have...

I'd say this observation holds true for most people who are new to TTRPGs. I've pretty much never encountered newbies who didn't grok AW instantly. Have seen stables of "veterans" who can't wrap their heads around it, though. Been one of them, too.

I just profoundly don't understand this angle. Like, TTRPGs aren't huge LARPs for dozens of people. They need like 2-3-4 players. Besides, we live in the 21st century, online play exists. And I don't think anyone is "inherently" a particular kind of player. People are shaped and moulded by...

Regardless of whether other people are onboard with it, it requires an understanding of the game. You can't make a good DooM mod, unless you know what makes DooM tick, and if you start smuggling stuff like regenerating health, ADS, cover peeking and all that into it, you'll end up with a way...

I studied as a software engineer and met tons of this type at university. Mine generalization would also include complete lack of actual technical skills despite the inflated ego.

I've recently played in a Cortex game that strived to capture the feeling of Honk Kong action cinema (and, I think, Lucha Libre, but that flew right over my head), which I think, is relevant to beat'em ups. Each scene was chock-full of aspects describing the environment and the bulk of the...

Eh? PbtA and FitD aren't even remotely similar to Fate? Maybe I'm lost at what you mean by "metagaming" here, but neither Blades in the Dark, nor Apocalypse World don't require any. That's the reason I like them: I can just play the damn game and it works, while in D&D and its ilk I basically...

I'm not entirely sure I understand your point here. Yes, a particular person can learn about something included in E from a particular role-playing system that includes it in its S, but this something exists irrespective of the system and could be learned from another source (including, for...

Eh, kinda? Like, first, the "standards of quality" are inherently lower, as you by default have higher investment in the process (and the characters, and the Premise), and, second, while guaranteeing that every single story will be great, it is possible to guarantee that the moment it will start...

Well, the rules themselves are rarely static too! Sometimes directly like DCC with it's dedicated funnel, sometimes indirectly, like picking a playbook, and then moves, and then advancements in AW. The way I see it, venturing into dangerous territory outside of consensus necessitates...

I'm not entirely sure if countability here even applies, as we are not operating with numbers. I'd say the set of all possible transcripts from an RPG campaign is a countable infinity, as, say, representing each as Unicode chars is an injecture function that would map transcripts to natural...

It's a proof by contradiction, the point is that o cannot belong to S, but not to E, it's impossible, so S is a subset of E.

To put a discussion of simulationism aside (maybe it should be moved to another thread?), I have this theory that I've jokingly called it Super Theory of Super Everything, and I keep postponing putting it to paper. So. There's an infinite set E, that contains everything, everything, Super...

Aside VII (I think?): on immersion and abstractions Immersing oneself in the fictional world is the job of the player. It takes conscious effort to "forget" that you are actually not in a trap-riddled tomb, but here in the real world, with a cigarette in one hand and a half-eaten slice of pizza...

It wasn't directed at me, but I think that fear has zero to do with the reality. Both the position and the effect are almost always just plain obvious from the narration, and when they aren't, confusion is cleared in less than a sentence.

I do not dispute that. I don't really want to get into discussing what "real" means, but I'd say Tolkien's orcs are "real" (OK, I haven't read anything of Tolkien, so this is my assumption), in a sense that it's possible to verify a particular depiction for integrity and do research about them...