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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 5124747" data-attributes="member: 40177">I somehow knew there'd be a "What is GNS?" debate.  But someone mentioned the fact that you could graph a game on a triangle, which is sort of where I was going with this - because to place a game on the triangle is essentially saying "if a game is strongly X, then it is by nature less Y and Z".  Which kind of makes an interesting thought exercise.  If a game can be rated from 1 to 5 in each of the categories, and all three categories have to add up to 9, how would you rate some of your favourite games?  (as an example, I'd say 4e is Gamist 4.5, Narrativist 3, Simulationist 1.5... 2e would be more like Gamist 2, Narrativist 4, and Simulationist 3... while Shadowrun would be maybe Gamist 1.5, Narrativist 3, Simulationist 4.5 - but that's just a quick assessment).</blockquote>