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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 9199134" data-attributes="member: 71699">In <a href="https://lumpley.games/2019/12/30/powered-by-the-apocalypse-part-1/" target="_blank">this blog</a>, Baker explains how to apply his design language. Linked is the first of a nine-part series.Baker <a href="http://www.lumpley.com/index.php/anyway/thread/438" target="_blank">worked through problems like these in diagrammatic form</a> a few years prior to the publication of Adams' book. Over those same years Ernest had been publishing his own series of videogame design articles in Gamasutra. I printed and read many and for awhile kept a folder of them.It's certainly possible to create diagrams representing the claims in the OP in order to explore and succinctly communicate those ideas. Vincent Baker has performed that sort of exploration, and as documented on his blog used the analysis to construct the PbtA TTRPG design language. Like Harper, Baker iterated over several published TTRPGs. His approach is to my mind hard to fault. Harper's work draws on Baker's analysis (and if anything applies it more rigorously.)It's kind of a digression, but I think the specific problem solved by Oracles - for instance in Ironsworn as you discussed earlier - is to allow players to explore their own (and each other's) imagination by propelling them in directions they would not otherwise have considered.So that's the high-level description. We can easily see that there is linkage between system and fiction. One then has to work through the sorts of linkages available, and draw conclusions to guide future design. Applied to the problem space, with enough iterations, one lands at something like <a href="http://www.lumpley.com/index.php/anyway/thread/430" target="_blank">Vincent Baker's clouds and cubes diagrams</a>.Anyway, I believe I have lost track of what you were arguing for (or against)?</blockquote>

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