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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7390869" data-attributes="member: 42582">This is the difference from classical play. In B2, it is expected that thie player eventually can get the information they need to make reasoned choices. The artificially austere nature of the environment is one underpinning of this possibilityu.This is why I call it GM-driven play. It seems obvious, from your description here, that it involves only modest player agency in respect of the content of the shared fiction. Even the fiction that the GM actually narrates at the table is going to be opaque to the players!Not at all. There's no particular connection between exploration and worldbuilding. See, for instance, <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?299440-Exploration-scenarios-my-experiment-last-Sunday" target="_blank">this actual play report</a>.Exploring the gameworld is something that the PCs do. That doesn't have to mean that the players are learning stuff the GM already wrote down. (Or is making up uliaterally in the course of play.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7390869, member: 42582"] This is the difference from classical play. In B2, it is expected that thie player eventually [I]can[/I] get the information they need to make reasoned choices. The artificially austere nature of the environment is one underpinning of this possibilityu. This is why I call it GM-driven play. It seems obvious, from your description here, that it involves only modest player agency in respect of the content of the shared fiction. Even the fiction that the GM actually narrates at the table is going to be opaque to the players! Not at all. There's no particular connection between exploration and worldbuilding. See, for instance, [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?299440-Exploration-scenarios-my-experiment-last-Sunday]this actual play report[/url]. [I]Exploring the gameworld[/I] is something that the PCs do. That doesn't have to mean that the players are learning stuff the GM already wrote down. (Or is making up uliaterally in the course of play.) [/QUOTE]

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