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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6812684" data-attributes="member: 42582">I'm not sure what you mean by saying &quot;the story doesn't care&quot;. Stories are abstract objects - they don't have emotional or affective responses.But I care. Secret backstory used as an input into the adjudication of declared actions moves the play dynamic away from what I prefer, from player-driven to GM driven. I'm not 100% sure what you mean by &quot;GM-authored reason for a consequence that the GM authored in the moment&quot;, but I think you mean some new piece of fiction introduced to explain and elaborate a failed check. That is very different. The new fiction isn't an input into the adjudication. It is an output of it. The players' control over the fiction wasn't thwarted by something the GM had already (secretly) made up. Rather, the player(s) made a check, and failed, which hence licensed the GM to introduce new fiction giving effect to that failure (eg the absence of the mace from the tower; the dropping of the divining rod down the ravine; the turning of the tribe/cult upon the PC; etc).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6812684, member: 42582"] I'm not sure what you mean by saying "the story doesn't care". Stories are abstract objects - they don't have emotional or affective responses. But I care. Secret backstory used as an input into the adjudication of declared actions moves the play dynamic away from what I prefer, from player-driven to GM driven. I'm not 100% sure what you mean by "GM-authored reason for a consequence that the GM authored in the moment", but I think you mean [I]some new piece of fiction introduced to explain and elaborate a failed check[/I]. That is very different. The new fiction isn't an [I]input[/I] into the adjudication. It is an output of it. The players' control over the fiction wasn't thwarted by something the GM had already (secretly) made up. Rather, the player(s) made a check, and failed, which hence licensed the GM to introduce new fiction giving effect to that failure (eg the absence of the mace from the tower; the dropping of the divining rod down the ravine; the turning of the tribe/cult upon the PC; etc). [/QUOTE]

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