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"He died in the war."

Creativity. Social outlet. Watching and getting feedback from people enjoying my creativity. As a player, solving problems, enjoying other people's creativity, immersing myself in the character and the lore of the setting.

So like @haakon1 I build my assumptions about prices from wages. One reason for this is that D&D price lists are historically jacked up and highly unreliable owing to two different pricing structures developing. The Player's Handbook price lists utilizing a gold piece economy and this is...

I'd put it differently, though largely agreeing with you. The PCs are the protagonists of the GMs story, but they have shared goals to solve whatever problem that the GM has poised for them - often as a conceit of the campaign. "So you are all pirates..." or "So you all have a reason to hate...

sigh Only because you are new at this. This is an almost invariable problem that will show up in the first session or two. Someone, flush with their first character and thinking that they are really thinking out of the box, and possibly with a background in videogames where nothing you do has...

Eight players is tough to manage, even for an experienced GM. So the main thing to remember is the sort of game you can run as a GM depends very heavily on the number of (and particulars of) the players you have. If you have 1 to 3 players, you can run a game that depends very heavily on...

I mean if I'm engaged in Trad Play it doesn't matter if I think the scene would get cooler if even more orcs showed up from the next room when the text says the next room is empty. Considerations about what would be "cool" or "exciting" don't come into play. In Trad Play you are trying to...

This is a good point. It's probably best to not begin a discussion without defining terms. I was assuming that "narrative game" referred to games that were influenced by the narrativist viewpoint of GNS theory, but this could be incorrect. I don't think they ignore the "internal elements of...

It doesn't have anything to do with whether you are railroaded or not. If you track back the conversation, in fact my post was about how we couldn't say whether something was a railroad or not merely because you could (or couldn't) turn around and go back. While I agree inability to leave...

Errr... maybe people do value animals more than people, but in your example your reasoning is wrong. The reason you are fined more for a loose animal than a loose child is that it is assumed a loose animal is more likely to cause a traffic accident than a loose child.

I thought the reason was you could cast Raise Dead on a porter, but not on a horse.

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This probably deserves a fork to a new thread, but that is not the goal of narrative games. And in fact, that's opposite the goal of narrative games. Narrative games arose out of the big plot heavy story telling attempts of the 1990s that were still tied to game mechanics with traditional...

Thank you again for your opinion. I have been I think patient and jocular with your japes about my prolix writing, even making fun of myself as I am doing now. And I have tried to take your advice seriously, because I am aware of my limitations. I checked. The post in question is 416 words...

This is literally the second time people have repeated my own argument back to me. ""get off at any time" is functionally an agreement to stop playing. There isn't necessarily anything available for that session if you decide you don't want to do the tomb anymore" No one ever said this was...

Because not every GM is ready to improvise something entirely different than what they had prepared for the session. And the Tomb was just an example. If you are ready the improvise the journey back through the swamp, well then good for you. But the general example of a GM unable to improvise...

So in other words you are going to "disagree" and then repeat back to me what I just said to you: "get off at any time" is functionally an agreement to stop playing. There isn't necessarily anything available for that session if you decide you don't want to do the tomb anymore"? OK, nice. I...

I don't think we can in general say that. "Tomb of Horrors" is a very linear adventure for the most part. With a few exceptions in the early part of the adventure you go from A->B->C. There are technically a couple of ways to go from A->B but it's pretty linear. But I think it would be a...

What do you hope to achieve by this comment? It doesn't seem to pertain to anything I wrote. There is a wonderful scene in "The Golden Oecumene" where one character is trying to say "Hello" to another character via the internet, and sends a software agent to deliver the message and the...

As a software developer, I feel compelled to ask you, what first paragraph do you mean by that? Also what thing is it that you do? I believe so. We've been doing it for like 14 years. Seems like a strange question to me. Whether or not someone is "onboard with the game" is pretty...