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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8958634" data-attributes="member: 42582">I guess one point would be that, given that there are RPGs that don't follow your 7 steps, then what you say here isn't true in general:If there is no "setting for the campaign* because the RPG is one of those which does not follow your 7 steps, then adjudication is not just extrapolation of the setting.Furthermore, if there is no "setting" as contemplated by your 7 steps, then there is a role for rules other than your step (6) I adjudicate the result and describe the result and the changed circumstances - for instance, rules for establishing backstory or situation or other elements of the fiction which - in a 7 step RPG - are extrapolated by the GM from the setting.</blockquote>