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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8254555" data-attributes="member: 16814">Right.&nbsp; In a Story Now game, where you're making things up (or pretending) in the moment with only a little thinking about what could happen before play, &quot;fiction&quot; doesn't make sense because it doesn't capture the bits of writing down stories to tell players later.&nbsp; Meanwhile, &quot;fiction&quot; works much better for your approach because you are also writing down these stories to tell the players later AND making things up.&nbsp; This is a good point.&nbsp; Perhaps we only need to use &quot;fiction&quot; when talking about &quot;living worlds&quot; so that most gamers understand that you're making up a story to tell the players about a planet (or planetoid) that is alive, because that really gets the concept across.&nbsp; Meanwhile, we can just use &quot;pretend&quot; for other approaches that aren't writing these stories to tell the players?&nbsp; How does that grab you?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 8254555, member: 16814"] Right. In a Story Now game, where you're making things up (or pretending) in the moment with only a little thinking about what could happen before play, "fiction" doesn't make sense because it doesn't capture the bits of writing down stories to tell players later. Meanwhile, "fiction" works much better for your approach because you are also writing down these stories to tell the players later AND making things up. This is a good point. Perhaps we only need to use "fiction" when talking about "living worlds" so that most gamers understand that you're making up a story to tell the players about a planet (or planetoid) that is alive, because that really gets the concept across. Meanwhile, we can just use "pretend" for other approaches that aren't writing these stories to tell the players? How does that grab you? [/QUOTE]

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