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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 9210667" data-attributes="member: 71699"><p>To me it felt worth your pointing that out. We don't "negotiate" that a bison-hair cloak costs 3 lunars in New Pavis (unless we diegetically haggle!) Nor that a 7 result on the Balazar weather table means today is hot, clear, no rain. Nor do we necessarily hold a debate about whether to retcon Alert in an encounter with Ogres... much of the time GM just offers a correction and the group runs with it.</p><p></p><p>As you say, we have "structure, authority distribution, and amicable conversation". Up-front we made varying internal commitments to structure, authority distribution, and amicability. Those can change <em>any time</em> new information arises. They're "strong" in the sense that not simply any new information compels in the moment querying, new proposals, renegotiaton, or agreement. Only some sorts of new information do.</p><p></p><p>To see something about those sorts, it's easy enough to set up tables whose results require less or more filling in of details, while putting less or more at stake. One can predict that tables whose results require more filling in of details while putting more at stake will typically bring in-the-moment agreement to the forefront, while those whose results are sufficiently detailed and put nothing at stake will typically be covered by prior overriding agreements.</p><p></p><p>Per my d6 roll result example above, possibly this is just a comment on the strength of norms. Few need to reach in-the-moment agreement about the number plainly showing on a rolled d6. Honestly, I feel in various posts, taken together (and discounting misteps that are rather endemic to forum conversation) we've sketched out pretty well what's going on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 9210667, member: 71699"] To me it felt worth your pointing that out. We don't "negotiate" that a bison-hair cloak costs 3 lunars in New Pavis (unless we diegetically haggle!) Nor that a 7 result on the Balazar weather table means today is hot, clear, no rain. Nor do we necessarily hold a debate about whether to retcon Alert in an encounter with Ogres... much of the time GM just offers a correction and the group runs with it. As you say, we have "structure, authority distribution, and amicable conversation". Up-front we made varying internal commitments to structure, authority distribution, and amicability. Those can change [I]any time[/I] new information arises. They're "strong" in the sense that not simply any new information compels in the moment querying, new proposals, renegotiaton, or agreement. Only some sorts of new information do. To see something about those sorts, it's easy enough to set up tables whose results require less or more filling in of details, while putting less or more at stake. One can predict that tables whose results require more filling in of details while putting more at stake will typically bring in-the-moment agreement to the forefront, while those whose results are sufficiently detailed and put nothing at stake will typically be covered by prior overriding agreements. Per my d6 roll result example above, possibly this is just a comment on the strength of norms. Few need to reach in-the-moment agreement about the number plainly showing on a rolled d6. Honestly, I feel in various posts, taken together (and discounting misteps that are rather endemic to forum conversation) we've sketched out pretty well what's going on. [/QUOTE]
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