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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8257716" data-attributes="member: 42582">The key element of the "living world" as I am making sense of it is that the fiction is created by the GM. This is what makes it possible for the players to learn it without also creating it. And the fact that players can learn it is what makes skilled play relevant.In Prince Valiant, by way of contrast, and even moreso (say) Cthulhu Dark, there is really no skilled play in the D&D/Gygaxian sense. There is the skill of knowing your character and engaging the situation, but that's a completely different skill. It's about picking up the trajectory of the fiction and running with it.</blockquote>