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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8082159" data-attributes="member: 42582">I've posted the actual play links, and also the further analysis just above.I can give more links if you like - I have a lot of actual play reports on these boards.One fundamental contrast between an AP and the sessions I have linked to and described is the relationship between play, authorship and time. Of course after the event a series of things can be seen to have happened - both at the table and in the fiction - but that is very close to being a tautology.During play, however, no one needed to choose to tell a story. Other, different choices are being made. The system (mechanics + techniques) ensures that a story results.Prior to play, there is nothing but agreement on a system, some characters and a starting situation.EDIT: A further comment on time. In the BW session, as things played out the encounter with Rufus foreshadowed the reunion of Thurgon and Xanthippe. Had things gone differently with Rufus, there may have been no, or a different sort of, foreshadowing. What supports the foreshadowing in these systems is not deliberate pre-authorship but rather resolution frameworks which ensure that certain thematic elements are (re-)introduced and sustained as concerns of play. This is part of the starting agreement on characters and situation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8082159, member: 42582"] I've posted the actual play links, and also the further analysis just above. I can give more links if you like - I have a lot of actual play reports on these boards. One fundamental contrast between an AP and the sessions I have linked to and described is [I]the relationship between play, authorship and time[/I]. Of course after the event a series of things can be seen to have happened - both at the table and in the fiction - but that is very close to being a tautology. [I]During play[/I], however, no one needed to choose to tell a story. Other, different choices are being made. The system (mechanics + techniques) ensures that a story results. [I]Prior to play[/I], there is nothing but agreement on a system, some characters and a starting situation. EDIT: A further comment on time. In the BW session, [I]as things played out[/I] the encounter with Rufus foreshadowed the reunion of Thurgon and Xanthippe. Had things gone differently with Rufus, there may have been no, or a different sort of, foreshadowing. What supports the foreshadowing in these systems is not [I]deliberate pre-authorship[/I] but rather resolution frameworks which ensure that certain thematic elements are (re-)introduced and sustained as concerns of play. This is part of the starting agreement on characters and situation. [/QUOTE]

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