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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7396419" data-attributes="member: 42582">If you include, within your focus, how the fiction becomes what it is then your are not focusing strictly on the resultant fiction - ie your analysis has the character that [MENTION=82106]AbdulAlhazred[/MENTION] says it must have.If you don't include that within your focus, then you have not analysis at all. Concrete example, from the session that I GMed today: the PCs, travelling north along a ridge above a glacier, came to a frozen lake where a great ash tree was growing, ravens perched in its branches and three (NPC) women trying to light a fire in its lee. The NPCs declared that Yggdrasil was dying, the earth around its root frozen. The trol PC used his power over the earth and stone to open a rift allowing first a hot spring, and then hot air from a subterranean geothermal source, to come up to the surface and thaw the root. This saved Yggdrasil from dying.From that recount, what can you tell about the session? What actions did the players declare for their PCs? What bits of fiction were the result of those action declarations? What bits were part of the framing, and who framed them? What actions, if any, did I as GM declare for the NPCs? What consequences did I establish in response to failed checks? Who decided that Yggdrawil was in danger of dying, and that subterranean warmth could save it?You can't answer any of these questions just by reading the recount of the fictional events that I wrote out above.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7396419, member: 42582"] If you include, within your focus, [I]how the fiction becomes what it is[/I] then your are not focusing strictly on the resultant fiction - ie your analysis has the character that [MENTION=82106]AbdulAlhazred[/MENTION] says it must have. If you don't include that within your focus, then you have not [I]analysis [/I]at all. Concrete example, from the session that I GMed today: the PCs, travelling north along a ridge above a glacier, came to a frozen lake where a great ash tree was growing, ravens perched in its branches and three (NPC) women trying to light a fire in its lee. The NPCs declared that Yggdrasil was dying, the earth around its root frozen. The trol PC used his power over the earth and stone to open a rift allowing first a hot spring, and then hot air from a subterranean geothermal source, to come up to the surface and thaw the root. This saved Yggdrasil from dying. From that recount, what can you tell about the session? What actions did the players declare for their PCs? What bits of fiction were the result of those action declarations? What bits were part of the framing, and who framed them? What actions, if any, did I as GM declare for the NPCs? What consequences did I establish in response to failed checks? Who decided that Yggdrawil was in danger of dying, and that subterranean warmth could save it? You can't answer any of these questions just by reading the recount of the fictional events that I wrote out above. [/QUOTE]

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