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<blockquote data-quote="Campbell" data-source="post: 9678281" data-attributes="member: 16586">Stakes in the sense we're talking about in the context of Narrativist play are personal stakes, as in stuff that matters to the character. It's not about world stakes or danger. A lot of what you consider downtime stuff would be the focus of a game like Apocalypse World as long as they represent a change in the status quo for the character. We would likely consider the adventuring stuff fairly&nbsp; low-stakes in that it really only threatens the character's life and doesn't address who they are.Something might be very high stakes in Apocalypse World if you are playing a Gun Lugger is situation where Mary Jo, the girl who presses your bullets that you have an on again off again thing with is not talking to you because Dremmer said you spent too much time at the bar talking Rosie. This is a problem for you personally, because Dremmer is causing trouble for you and Rosie was giving leads for some gigs, but those leads do you no good if you don't have any damn bullets. So now you have to sort it out with Mary Jo or find someone else to press some bullets and deal with whatever personal storm comes with it. Obviously very minimal impact on the state of the world. Massive impact on the state of your world.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Campbell, post: 9678281, member: 16586"] Stakes in the sense we're talking about in the context of Narrativist play are personal stakes, as in stuff that matters to the character. It's not about world stakes or danger. A lot of what you consider downtime stuff would be the focus of a game like Apocalypse World as long as they represent a change in the status quo for the character. We would likely consider the adventuring stuff fairly low-stakes in that it really only threatens the character's life and doesn't address who they are. Something might be very high stakes in Apocalypse World if you are playing a Gun Lugger is situation where Mary Jo, the girl who presses your bullets that you have an on again off again thing with is not talking to you because Dremmer said you spent too much time at the bar talking Rosie. This is a problem for you personally, because Dremmer is causing trouble for you and Rosie was giving leads for some gigs, but those leads do you no good if you don't have any damn bullets. So now you have to sort it out with Mary Jo or find someone else to press some bullets and deal with whatever personal storm comes with it. Obviously very minimal impact on the state of the world. Massive impact on the state of your world. [/QUOTE]

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