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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 5124555" data-attributes="member: 80487">[The definitions in Wik's OP struck me as more common sense than what I recalled from Forge discussions, so I turned to "The Provisional Glossary".]<a href="http://indie-rpgs.com/_articles/glossary.html" target="_blank">http://indie-rpgs.com/_articles/glossary.html</a>Gamism (Gamist play)   One of the three currently-recognized Creative Agendas. The term was first proposed by Mary Kuhner for the Threefold Model; its usage is very similar in the Big Model. See Step On Up.Step On Up   Social assessment of personal strategy and guts among the participants in the face of risk. One of the three currently-recognized Creative Agendas. As a top priority of role-playing, the defining feature of Gamist play.  Narrativism (Narrativist play)      One of the three currently-recognized  Creative Agendas. See Story Now.  Story Now   Commitment to Addressing (producing, heightening, and resolving) Premise through play itself. The epiphenomenal outcome for the Transcript from such play is almost always a story. One of the three currently-recognized Creative Agendas. As a top priority of role-playing, the defining feature of Narrativist play.  Premise (adapted from Egri)   A generalizable, problematic aspect of human interactions. Early in the process of creating or experiencing a story, a Premise is best understood as a proposition or perhaps an ideological challenge to the world represented by the protagonist's passions. Later in the process, resolving the conflicts of the story transforms Premise into a theme - a judgmental statement about how to act, behave, or believe. In role-playing, "protagonist" typically indicates a character mainly controlled by one person. A defining feature of Story Now.  Simulationism (Simulationist play)      One of the three currently-recognized Creative Agendas. See The Right to Dream. Right to Dream, the   Commitment to the imagined events of play, specifically their in-game causes and pre-established thematic elements. One of the three currently-recognized Creative Agendas. As a top priority for role-playing, the defining feature of Simulationist play. See Simulationism: the Right to Dream.  [That's a dead end. Back to Google. Ah, here we are.]<a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/articles/15/" target="_blank">http://www.indie-rpgs.com/articles/15/</a>[Ladies and Gents, the amazing Ron Edwards]Simulationist role-playing has a great deal of power and potential. In the previous essay, I wrote that it "... is expressed by enhancing one or more of the listed elements [Character, Setting, Situation, System, Color]; in other words, Simulationism heightens and focuses Exploration as the priority of play. The players may be greatly concerned with the internal logic and experiential consistency of that Exploration." Pound for pound, Basic Role-Playing from The Chaosium is perhaps the most important system, publishing tradition, and intellectual engine in the hobby - yes, even more than D&D. It represents the first and arguably the most lasting, influential form of uncompromising Simulationist design. Q: Can Simulationist design be Abashed?   A: Sure. "Abashed" refers to design that must be Drifted in order to play because incompatible priorities are present among different parts of the rules. It's different from Incoherent design in that such Drift is easy and minor. Technically, an Abashed game is already at least two modes (or sub-modes); e.g. I've said that Little Fears represents Abashed Narrativist design, but it should really be called Abashed Narrativism/Simulationism. [There's plenty more where those excerpts came from!]</blockquote>

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