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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nagol" data-source="post: 5472470" data-attributes="member: 23935">As for fiction-first through metagame resolution, I find them easy to spot.In fiction-first, the players and by extension the PCs, rely on what they believe plausible and likely to happen based the current environment and previous experience with the described game reality and campaign history.In mechanical resolution, the players rely on the rule description and the PCs effects manifest in the specified way inside the world.In metagame resolution, the players rely on the rule description and have to come up with a narrative manifestation inside the game world that matches that effect.Let's look at Lightning Bolt to see the differenceIn fiction first (1e), a Lightning Bolt bounced when it couldn't penetrate a barrier, turned into a globe of destructive energy underwater, and generally interacted with the game world as the creator's/DM's believed electricity would including suggestions to reduce saving throws if the party is standing in water, etc.  The Lightning bolt is a manifestation in the world as is affected by the world as much as it affects the world.In mechanical play (3e), a Lightning Bolt is a line of damage that stops at a barrier, and is unaffected by water or generally any other effect not specific to affecting the spell.  The Lightning Bolt is a manifestation in the world but not really affected by the world.In a more narrative game, a player uses a power that causes damage to a fixed area in a line extending from the PC.  The player decides the PC shot a lightning bolt from his hand into the enemy.  Later, the same player activates a power that stuns all creatures in a circle around his PC.  Since he's standing knee deep water at the time, the player narrates using the same lightning bolt to shock everyone in the water.  The lightning bolt has become a special effect for powers activated by the player rather than being a resource of the character.</blockquote>

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