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<blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 9317350" data-attributes="member: 9053">In your example, you ran a spontaneous AD&amp;D game. Unless there's a lot more to this story, there's nothing inherently narrative about that. Unless you made some mechanical adjustments, the rules of AD&amp;D aren't kind to the example characters you used. Perhaps this was largely a roleplaying/social experience, which AD&amp;D largely did without rules, but level 1 wizards and thieves are notoriously bad at doing the things you would expect them to do in the fiction.I've said repeatedly that you can run a narrative game in any system, but one designed for that play will have more options for the players to have agency, let the GM adjust to what the player does on the fly (again, mechanically) and have that random chance element that neither the player nor the GM have at their control. That's what a good narrative game does. You can do a lot of those things with a game like AD&amp;D, but a game that's designed around that will have you asking &quot;Should I let that happen? What's reasonable in this situation?&quot; a lot less. And it will also let a less experienced GM do it. I've played Blades in the Dark with a first-time GM and while it took a bit for them to get their footing, they got it and ran a good session for us. I don't think the same thing would have happened if they wanted to accomplish the same ideas for a game with AD&amp;D.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SteveC, post: 9317350, member: 9053"] In your example, you ran a spontaneous AD&D game. Unless there's a lot more to this story, there's nothing inherently narrative about that. Unless you made some mechanical adjustments, the rules of AD&D aren't kind to the example characters you used. Perhaps this was largely a roleplaying/social experience, which AD&D largely did without rules, but level 1 wizards and thieves are notoriously bad at doing the things you would expect them to do in the fiction. I've said repeatedly that you can run a narrative game in any system, but one designed for that play will have more options for the players to have agency, let the GM adjust to what the player does on the fly (again, mechanically) and have that random chance element that neither the player nor the GM have at their control. That's what a good narrative game does. You can do a lot of those things with a game like AD&D, but a game that's designed around that will have you asking "Should I let that happen? What's reasonable in this situation?" a lot less. And it will also let a less experienced GM do it. I've played Blades in the Dark with a first-time GM and while it took a bit for them to get their footing, they got it and ran a good session for us. I don't think the same thing would have happened if they wanted to accomplish the same ideas for a game with AD&D. [/QUOTE]

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