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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 6555053" data-attributes="member: 463">The stuff Pemerton is talking about - frame scenes for drama, let the players determine outcome - existed at least since the 1980s, so it's not all that modern. All the licensed-genre fiction games like James Bond 007, Indiana Jones RPG, d6 Star Wars etc had something like that I think. The d20 'Midnight' campaign I played in ca 2003 did that very heavily, and I've always done &amp; experienced it a lot in PBEM RPG play back to the mid '90s and in play-by-post games before that. Scene framing &amp; railroading are the two main ways you get the like-a-movie experience that people want from licensed-genre RPGs like Indiana Jones, and some other games too - you could run The Price of Freedom as a sandbox set in wilderness Colorado&nbsp;(Wolverines!) but that's not the thrust of the GMing advice.I don't think scene-framing is marginal to RPGs at all - maybe it's somewhat marginal to D&amp;D (outside of the 4e DMGs).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 6555053, member: 463"] The stuff Pemerton is talking about - frame scenes for drama, let the players determine outcome - existed at least since the 1980s, so it's not all that modern. All the licensed-genre fiction games like James Bond 007, Indiana Jones RPG, d6 Star Wars etc had something like that I think. The d20 'Midnight' campaign I played in ca 2003 did that very heavily, and I've always done & experienced it a lot in PBEM RPG play back to the mid '90s and in play-by-post games before that. Scene framing & railroading are the two main ways you get the like-a-movie experience that people want from licensed-genre RPGs like Indiana Jones, and some other games too - you could run The Price of Freedom as a sandbox set in wilderness Colorado (Wolverines!) but that's not the thrust of the GMing advice. I don't think scene-framing is marginal to RPGs at all - maybe it's somewhat marginal to D&D (outside of the 4e DMGs). [/QUOTE]

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