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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 9343814" data-attributes="member: 82106">No, I am simply concerned, because this happens all the time in threads here, that if I adopt your special jargon version of this term, then loe and behold tomorrow I'm going to be getting beat over the head with the conclusion that all of Narrativist play is just a big hoaxy railroad where everything is decided off to the side in this mythical 'writers room'. An argument which IS CURRENT RIGHT NOW and has been presented in this very thread more than once!Now, if we want to talk VERY SPECIFICALLY about a certain element of BitD play, then we can talk about that, but I warn you, I don't really accept the premise here either. The player and the GM work out position and effect, along with obviously WHAT the character is doing, and thus which attribute is being rolled. While the immediate stakes should be fairly clear, GMs toss in unexpected consequences from left field all the time.Takeo was battling a nasty opponent, and about to lose. He asks for a Devil's Bargain (a consequence for an extra die) and gets "you see the face of the girl you are looking for in the window of the abbatoir across the alley." That sure wasn't decided in some sort of negotiation of consequences. It followed from things Takeo was doing and wanted, but not in any predictable linear way.Well, we do obviously play differently, but I don't think that what you are talking about comes up that much in Narrativist play either. I mean, some of us are OLD hands at this by now, and so we do sometimes digress and discuss our play and analyze things a bit more than is needed in order to just play, but nothing gets decided ahead of time.</blockquote>

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