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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ST" data-source="post: 3702379" data-attributes="member: 14053">Well for one thing, a "storytelling game" should probably have the rules (the game part) actually deal with story elements. In the way that you can use D&D 3.5 to arbitrate combat and skills use, these games arbitrate how the story comes together.The indie games that do this already (not too popular on these boards, admittedly) work off the English 101 idea that a story has a theme, or premise. Other games, like Buffy or Primetime Adventures, work more on "We're simulating a TV show" and put a story together like they would.The complaints people have had on the last few pages are mostly dealing with the suck that happens when a GM's trying to impose a story. Something like D&D, where the rules deal with a simulation of what is happening, don't give the player access to the same story elements as the GM, so they have to work at it to get you involved in co-creating the plot and theme.One example: No matter how high your skill roll, you aren't going to find somebody in D&D if the GM's decided they're not around. In some of the storytelling games out there, the outcome of that skill roll might determine whether the person's there, or they're there but uncooperative, or your nosing around got you into trouble -- the mechanics are helping the story develop rather than trying to simulate an objective reality.I'm afraid that's not a very good explanation; you'd be better off looking up something like Primetime Adventures or The Shadow of Yesterday and looking at how they explain it.</blockquote>

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