Lowery I understand what Pemerton is saying. Believe me I have every reason I’m the world to want to disagree with him on stuff. We generally do not see eye to eye. But he is making a sensible point and he isn’t saying other people havevyo adopt his approach—he is just asserting how he reacts to things like stakes, GM narration etc. for my part I largely agree with his point about narration. When the GM performs in a flavorful way, doesn’t go as much for me emotionally as what is going on. I would surely quibble over details but I basically agree with him: this isn’t literaryand the GM doing things like speaking as though he is a narrator from a novel takes away from the experience for me.
You are spending a lot of effort trying to make me look and feel like an idiot. I understand the basic points being made. But a lot of my responses are to specific replies. People are being disingenuous when they say something specific, I react to it, then they tell me it is somehow out of bounds because the thread is about something else. I am just responding to what people say directly to me. And I will note most of my specific questions were ignored.