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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9228964" data-attributes="member: 42582">Here is [USER=82106]@AbdulAlhazred[/USER], describing what does or doesn't count as conflict and stakes in DitV:So in the case of DitV, says AbdulAlhazred, the player always finds whatever it is they need to initiate the conflict with the Mayor. This is part of actively revealing the town in play.And here is what you, [USER=7025508]@Crimson Longinus[/USER], posted:As best I can tell, you are not saying the same thing as AbdulAlhazred. You appear to be contemplating the exact opposite, namely, that the GM does not actively reveal the town in play, and hoards backstory, and makes the players declare low-stakes actions to try and trigger the GM into revealing it.Here are the reply you got from me. I began by saying the same as AbdulAlhazred:And then I pointed out that the sort of situation you are envisaging is an example of error in DitV or similar conflict-resolution-driven play:And I have come back to this repeatedly in replies to you, from the angle of success: the way you avoid this error in play is to ensure that there is a coinciding of the player putting the discovery of the documents at stake, and the character being fictionally positioned to discover the papers.The method that DitV uses to insure that these things coincide is to have the GM actively reveal the town in play.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 9228964, member: 42582"] Here is [USER=82106]@AbdulAlhazred[/USER], describing what does or doesn't count as conflict and stakes in DitV: So in the case of DitV, says AbdulAlhazred, the player always finds whatever it is they need to initiate the conflict with the Mayor. This is part of [I]actively revealing the town in play[/I]. And here is what you, [USER=7025508]@Crimson Longinus[/USER], posted: As best I can tell, you are not saying the same thing as AbdulAlhazred. You appear to be contemplating the exact opposite, namely, that the GM does [I]not[/I] actively reveal the town in play, and hoards backstory, and makes the players declare low-stakes actions to try and trigger the GM into revealing it. Here are the reply you got from me. I began by saying the same as AbdulAlhazred: And then I pointed out that the sort of situation you are envisaging [I]is an example of error[/I] in DitV or similar conflict-resolution-driven play: And I have come back to this repeatedly in replies to you, from the angle of success: the way you avoid this error in play is to ensure that there is a [I]coinciding[/I] of [I]the player putting the discovery of the documents at stake[/I], and [I]the character being fictionally positioned to discover the papers[/I]. The method that DitV uses to insure that these things coincide is to have the GM [I]actively reveal the town in play[/I]. [/QUOTE]

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