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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 9236316" data-attributes="member: 71699">My aims are toward a manifesto rather than a prescriptive definition. I'm discussing what TTRPG designers may and ought to be doing. In respect of which, individual game texts are glimmers illuminating parts of a vast design space.But if I had to achieve a definition, then I would first filter for every game text I understood to fit a traditional mode of play (OSR, sandbox. sim, trad) and then I would filter for just those that also integrated innovations from indie-games (largely storygames) with a particular concern for how they treated GM powers and centered player authorship. (Hence calling attention to scene-closure-systems, flags, and striking rule zero.)Does that help at all? My motives for suggesting that this ought to lead to repositioning GM as player are technical ones, around what rules are and what rule-following amounts to. EDIT Actually, there's another more important motive: I believe best practice design will not spatchcock a grab-bag of innovations into their game text, but be thoughtful about what those innovations mean! Why did they arise? Why did they matter to those who designed them? What project are those innovations intended to drive toward, and what form ought that project to take in the neotrad design?!</blockquote>