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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7396849" data-attributes="member: 42582">The reason I referreed to Eero Tuovinen's essay, a long way upthread, is because it gives a very clear statement of the "standard narrativistic model", which is one method of "story now" RPGing. PbtA is another way, which emphasises scene-framing less and extrapolation from the fiction more. (PbtA is, in that way at least, closer to OSR.)In my experience there are some posters on ENworld who think the question "If there's no worldbuilding, how would the game even be set in motion?" is a purely rhetorical quetion, and a sufficient explanation of what worldbuilding is for. Hence the utility of a succinct description of an approach to play - the standard narrativistic model - which uses other methods to set the game in motion.Examples of searching for a map, or a secret door, were introduced into the discussion by me - not Eero Tuovinen - to illustrate the contrast between resolution with or without GM secet backstory. The only connection they have to Eero's essay is indirect, in the following way: (i) the absence of secret-backtory is more typical in standard narrativistic RPGing, because (ii) the use of secret backstory makes it harder to "go where the action is" if the action involves discovery (as opposed to, say, killing) and makes it more likely that the game will involve a significant degree of the players declaring actions that trigger the GM to reveal hitherto-unrevealed backstory so that the players then know what the necessary fictional positioning is for their PCs to make the desired discoveries.I guess a third connection between the topic of the previous paragraph, and Eero's essay, is that his essay is moslty a criticism of conch-passing (or, as he calls it, narration sharing), and resolving an action declaration in a RPG is obviously not conch-passing.Subsequently, [MENTION=29398]Lanefan[/MENTION], [MENTION=6778044]Ilbranteloth[/MENTION] and [MENTION=23751]Maxperson[/MENTION] asserted that resolving action declaration is, in fact, a form of conch-passing, and hence is the sort of thing that Eero is cautioning against. I think this is obviously not what Eero had in mind, for the reasons that both [MENTION=82106]AbdulAlhazred[/MENTION] and I have given: whatever we think about action resolution, it is clearly not preparing something in advance of playing the game, nor a proxy for it.</blockquote>

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