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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9540576" data-attributes="member: 42582">&quot;Story now&quot; RPGing is not about the story - by which is meant fairly standard elements of an engaging story, like premise/theme, rising action and conflict, crisis and resolution, etc.As [USER=6925338]@soviet[/USER] posted, &quot;story now&quot; RPGing is about the now - that is, the particular manner in which those elements of story are created. They are created by the participants, acting together in accordance with the rules of the game. One mark of good rules for &quot;story now&quot; RPGing is that they make it relatively effortless for the participants, in playing the game, to create a fiction that manifests those familiar elements of a story as it is created.The two most obvious contrasts with &quot;story now&quot; RPGing, in the mainstream of RPGing, are (1) those RPG experiences which don't especially aspire to create a story with those sorts of elements at all - such as classic D&amp;D; and (2) those RPG experiences which display those elements, but because they are conceived of by the GM (or module author) in advance and are then imposed on, or fed into, the play in virtue of the way the GM controls the unfolding of the fiction - DL is the paradigm for this, but there have been endless further examples in the ensuing 40 years, and among D&amp;D players this seems to be the most common understanding of what it means to have &quot;story&quot; as a component of RPGing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 9540576, member: 42582"] "Story now" RPGing is not about the [I]story[/I] - by which is meant fairly standard elements of an engaging story, like premise/theme, rising action and conflict, crisis and resolution, etc. As [USER=6925338]@soviet[/USER] posted, "story now" RPGing is about the [I]now[/I] - that is, the particular manner in which those elements of story are created. They are created by the participants, acting together in accordance with the rules of the game. One mark of good rules for "story now" RPGing is that they make it relatively effortless for the participants, in playing the game, to create a fiction that manifests those familiar elements of a story as it is created. The two most obvious contrasts with "story now" RPGing, in the mainstream of RPGing, are (1) those RPG experiences which don't especially aspire to create a story with those sorts of elements at all - such as classic D&D; and (2) those RPG experiences which display those elements, but because they are conceived of by the GM (or module author) in advance and are then imposed on, or fed into, the play in virtue of the way the GM controls the unfolding of the fiction - DL is the paradigm for this, but there have been endless further examples in the ensuing 40 years, and among D&D players this seems to be the most common understanding of what it means to have "story" as a component of RPGing. [/QUOTE]

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