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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8626280" data-attributes="member: 42582">And?Ovinomancer said that "story now" is not about emergent story. You can't rebut that claim by pointing out that a story may emerge from the play. Because the claim concerned what the play of the game is about.Here's how <a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/_articles/narr_essay.html" target="_blank">Edwards defines "story"</a>: an imaginary series of events which includes at least one protagonist, at least one conflict, and events which may be construed as a resolution of the conflict.Story now play, therefore, is about having this sort of thing occurring here and now via the play of the game by all participants. At it's most basic, the player establishes the dramatic needs of the character (which may be internal, or may be driven by the setting); the GM frames a scene that puts those needs under pressure; the player declares an action for their PC; the action resolution mechanics resolve the action, with the upshot either being a defusing, or an escalation, of the conflict. Well-designed mechanics for this sort of play will reliably produce a "rhythm" or pacing of success and failure, so as to get a pattern of increased stakes, and then partial resolution, that roughly reflects the rising action and then resolution in other storytelling forms.Whether what emerges from the play of a story now game is a story, or not, is secondary. What the play is about is those moments of conflict in which the protagonist must struggle in some fashion to achieve their dramatic need, with the upshot, and the possibility of failure or success, being open at the time the scene is framed, and the action declared.</blockquote>

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