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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 9230816" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Well, think of it like this: If you are prepping for a Narrativist sort of game, the prep, what you establish as the 'myth' beforehand, is the stuff that is NOT IN DOUBT and thus not what the game is ABOUT. It may, probably is, important, it provides fictional position which allows the GM or players to put the stakes on the table, but it is not the focus of play. In trad play what is in the prep is the focus of play. In a narrativist game in which there's a murder to be solved, the stakes COULD involve determining who is the murderer and the question of whether or not you can solve the case, maybe the consequences of failure to do so, etc. OR it could be that the details of the murder are all spelled out in prep, and the story is about WHY and will the PC bring their own family to justice and what does that do to them. In a D&amp;D game the prep is about which doors the PCs have to open, which monsters they have to fight, which traps they have to disarm in the course of getting the gold, and here the focus of play IS on the things that are prepared.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 9230816, member: 82106"] Well, think of it like this: If you are prepping for a Narrativist sort of game, the prep, what you establish as the 'myth' beforehand, is the stuff that is NOT IN DOUBT and thus not what the game is ABOUT. It may, probably is, important, it provides fictional position which allows the GM or players to put the stakes on the table, but it is not the focus of play. In trad play what is in the prep is the focus of play. In a narrativist game in which there's a murder to be solved, the stakes COULD involve determining who is the murderer and the question of whether or not you can solve the case, maybe the consequences of failure to do so, etc. OR it could be that the details of the murder are all spelled out in prep, and the story is about WHY and will the PC bring their own family to justice and what does that do to them. In a D&D game the prep is about which doors the PCs have to open, which monsters they have to fight, which traps they have to disarm in the course of getting the gold, and here the focus of play IS on the things that are prepared. [/QUOTE]

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