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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 7390509" data-attributes="member: 23751">I'm not talking about action resolution, either.  Action resolution is different from backstory authority, but can result in changes to backstory as I demonstrated above.  The resolution to the action was only to find a secret door or not.  Nothing else.  The backstory authority comes from a secret door appearing where there was none in the backstory prior to the action resolution.Below is the quote from Tuovinen on backstory."Backstory authorityBackstory is the part of a roleplaying game scenario that “has happened before the game began”. The concept only makes sense when somebody has done preparatory work for the game or is using specific heuristics to simulate such preparation in real-time. For example, if the GM has decided in advance that the butler did it, then that is part of the backstory – it happened before the player characters came to the scene, and the GM will do his job with the assumption that this is an unchanging part of the game, even if the players might not know about it. Similarly a player character’s personal history is part of the backstory in a game that requires such. Backstory is specifically separate from what might happen during play itself. We say that somebody has “backstory authority” if he is allowed to determine something about the backstory, simply enough."When Eero Tuovinen talks about backstory, he's talking about anything that was authored prior to game play or simulates pre-authoring.  A Story Now game creates int the moment those things that would have been pre-authored in a more traditional game.  If you author a wall in the moment, that's a heuristic creation.  You have established something physical and long lasting in the moment, which qualifies as backstory since it is a real time creation of something that would have been pre-authored in a more traditional game. When one of you players resolves an action to find a secret door and succeeds, in addition to resolving the action, he is exercising heuristic backstory authority by adding in the secret door, which is also something that would have been established prior to game play in a more traditional game.  [MENTION=6778044]Ilbranteloth[/MENTION] is the one using Tuovinen correctly here.</blockquote>

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