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<blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 8233472" data-attributes="member: 5142">Edit: I appreciate your attempt to clarify matter. Sure, and the moment that you kill an orc in Room 1 of the dungeon through your own actions, the orc that previously existed in the GM's notes, no longer exists, but this would still largely describe &quot;play to discover what's in the GM's notes&quot; in terms of the general process of play. The difference between the usurpation of the Hrothgar's leadership and the orc is primarily a difference of scale rather than process. This is why the distinction seems a bit arbitrary, if not a somewhat meaningless one, as the ability to simply create &quot;new notes&quot; in the game is basically a truism of TTRPGs through PC actions, whether we are playing sandboxes, no myth story games, or adventure paths. And &quot;discovering what's in the GM's notes&quot; doesn't seem terribly different from &quot;discovering what's in the GM's authored world,&quot; regardless of whether they exist in notated form or not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aldarc, post: 8233472, member: 5142"] Edit: I appreciate your attempt to clarify matter. Sure, and the moment that you kill an orc in Room 1 of the dungeon through your own actions, the orc that previously existed in the GM's notes, no longer exists, but this would still largely describe "play to discover what's in the GM's notes" in terms of the general process of play. The difference between the usurpation of the Hrothgar's leadership and the orc is primarily a difference of scale rather than process. This is why the distinction seems a bit arbitrary, if not a somewhat meaningless one, as the ability to simply create "new notes" in the game is basically a truism of TTRPGs through PC actions, whether we are playing sandboxes, no myth story games, or adventure paths. And "discovering what's in the GM's notes" doesn't seem terribly different from "discovering what's in the GM's authored world," regardless of whether they exist in notated form or not. [/QUOTE]

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