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<blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 9893484" data-attributes="member: 6785785"><p>What comes to my mind when thinking about “play is paramount” is to think of an after report of play. Recently on another website, I was reading an actual play report, but all it did was describe the fiction that was established in play. Which to me is interesting because the person whose play report it was would fight tooth and nail if you said an RPG is “making a story” or anything similar. </p><p></p><p>So I think seeing a play report that doesn’t actually discuss the play… what the real people taking part are doing… is a kind of odd thing. So it struck me that if play is paramount, then after play, that’s what we’d talk about. What this player did, how the rules were used to resolve this part of play, how the GM handles that situation, and so on. </p><p></p><p>I know that may not be exactly what the OP was about, but these were recent thoughts I was having and they immediately came to mind when reading this thread.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hawkeyefan, post: 9893484, member: 6785785"] What comes to my mind when thinking about “play is paramount” is to think of an after report of play. Recently on another website, I was reading an actual play report, but all it did was describe the fiction that was established in play. Which to me is interesting because the person whose play report it was would fight tooth and nail if you said an RPG is “making a story” or anything similar. So I think seeing a play report that doesn’t actually discuss the play… what the real people taking part are doing… is a kind of odd thing. So it struck me that if play is paramount, then after play, that’s what we’d talk about. What this player did, how the rules were used to resolve this part of play, how the GM handles that situation, and so on. I know that may not be exactly what the OP was about, but these were recent thoughts I was having and they immediately came to mind when reading this thread. [/QUOTE]
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