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<blockquote data-quote="innerdude" data-source="post: 9008837" data-attributes="member: 85870">This, this right here? This is BY FAR the most difficult idea to shake coming from &quot;trad&quot; play styles. The notion of &quot;the world the characters live in,&quot; that it somehow has its own independent existence outside the shared space of play. The fact that the GM can spout fountains of lore surrounding it, can mentally connect wide swaths of contrived history and NPCs and their actions and landscapes and maps, etc., etc., somehow innately transforms this fictional creation of the mind of the GM into a &quot;real place&quot;, with &quot;immutable facts.&quot;When really it's just because it's assumed that the GM is allowed to introduce their version of the fiction at will, without any prior consent. It's not any less fictional just because the GM holds a privileged space and function in introducing the assumed &quot;truths&quot; of the fiction.This grounding assumption about the way the &quot;living world&quot; should take on a life of its own, and now has its own independent existence &quot;above and outside&quot; the more immediate fiction being generated in play is insidiously difficult to get away from.This was by far the hardest conceptual barrier for me to overcome in really understanding PbtA / Story Now play.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="innerdude, post: 9008837, member: 85870"] This, this right here? This is BY FAR the most difficult idea to shake coming from "trad" play styles. The notion of "the world the characters live in," that it somehow has its own independent existence outside the shared space of play. The fact that the GM can spout fountains of lore surrounding it, can mentally connect wide swaths of contrived history and NPCs and their actions and landscapes and maps, etc., etc., somehow innately transforms this fictional creation of the mind of the GM into a "real place", with "immutable facts." When really it's just because it's assumed that the GM is allowed to introduce their version of the fiction at will, without any prior consent. It's not any less fictional just because the GM holds a privileged space and function in introducing the assumed "truths" of the fiction. This grounding assumption about the way the "living world" should take on a life of its own, and now has its own independent existence "above and outside" the more immediate fiction being generated in play is insidiously difficult to get away from. This was by far the hardest conceptual barrier for me to overcome in really understanding PbtA / Story Now play. [/QUOTE]

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