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While this is true--I'm aroace, after all--the question obviously was about a very stereotypical bard.

I know, which is why I wonder why it's still being talked about now. As I'm pretty sure I said back then, this is all stuff you would also be thinking about in a trad game where you write the adventure ahead of time. Maybe not what would happen on a failed lockpick, but you'd probably think...

As I've said before, nobody is purely one type of gamer. We all switch between those three gamer types--and probably others not covered by GNS--as we need to.

How would you know if the cook had been established? If you had managed to look inside the kitchen ahead of time and established it was empty, then it's not particularly logical. But did you look inside?

Is it reasonable for a dragon to be at all interested in a humanoid bard?

Most people, I think, would either go "huh?" or "okay...?" because I don't think most people care all that much about whether the game is sim or narrative or gamist, as long as it lets them do whatever it is they consider to be cool stuff and the rules aren't stupid.

The book saying to have both a narrative and combat-focused Experience is simply a useful suggestion. This is a narrative game that, because of it having a D&D-ish flavor, also has a bit of an emphasis on combat. Someone who comes into the game wanting it to play like D&D will benefit from...

The exact phrasing doesn't matter, because people aren't machines who spit out the exact perfect phrase every time. I don't know what languages you have in your setting, so for the sake of this example, we will say that the PCs in question speak and read the Common Tongue. Imagine if you...

Well, there's still a cost to use it (it's not a free +2 all the time), and if you go for strict optimization, you're going to be missing out on using it elsewhere. Honestly, Experiences are almost exactly like Fate's Aspects, so it's probably a good idea to read things like What Makes A Good...

It may be a "you problem," but that doesn't mean it's not a problem.

You know the old AD&D cartoon? That. (It's typically a person getting transported to a fantasy world of some sort, often by dying, while keeping all their own memories but also often being some sort of chosen one). Alice in Wonderland and the Wizard of Oz would count as isekai.)

Well, I've never advocated for that, so I don't actually care how simulation systems are supposed to work. And as I said in my previous post, the only appreciable difference between a sim game and a narrative game is whether the results were decided by the writer before the game was published...

Heh, not in my game. If you want your character to know how the hyperdrive actually works to the point you're willing to have your character read a ginormous manual, then you get to decide the physics.

Nope. The player can now make up the specifics (within the confines of any established limitations, of course).

(several months later) You have finally finished reading the manual and now know how it all works. Now you get to field all the questions your party has!

Lots of people. I do. Now, I don't need the art to be full-color digital art, but it needs to be of decent quality. Art is inspirational. If something in the game has "meh" art, then people will often not care about it. An art style can turn people away. There's been plenty of people on this...

"The math says we should be traveling to last week, but for some reason it just doesn't do that. Nobody's been able to figure out why." Of course, if your players really, really want to do time traveling, and it's not just a whim, and you don't mind having to deal with the problems that creates...

Are your players wandering around aimlessly just occasionally poking at things but otherwise doing nothing? Because I'm assuming that the players have goals. Maybe it's a goal they got because they bit a GM-provided hook. Maybe it's a goal they made for their group. Maybe it's a goal they wrote...

Well first, you don't need subtext. You can actively just say stuff. "Hey, I don't know right now, so wait until our next session so I have time to figure it out." "OK, we can play, or you can watch me do math for the next hour. Choose wisely." "You're being pursued by enemies. Do you...

Mmm, I'd put hit points as a track or countdown more than a metacurrency.