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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 9009194" data-attributes="member: 82106">Well, its a bit of an odd blog, with its terminology and the odd statement about the techniques it discusses being in use in RPGs since "the seventies or earlier." (No actually!) but fair enough. "Blorb" is just classic Gygaxian and post-Gygaxian (Trad, Neo-Trad) RPG play, though its unclear if 'Higher Myth' Narrativist play would also be covered by this term (and Narrativist play is not limited to Low Myth!). This is kind of way standard terminology is nice. I don't follow what the desire is to introduce a term for "fiction that is not a GM secret" either. However I would note that there's no real difference between types of games, high or low myth here, things are known to two or more people when they are introduced at the table, never before! This "talking about a wider game state" can only indicate one thing, the one canonically forbidden thing in low myth play, that one of the participants rules out the possibility of resolving some game situation in a certain way on the basis of something no other participant knows about. I think the author here is also rather short of knowledge of, or fails to explicate, important aspects of the distinctions he's trying to make. It is untrue that GMs in Low Myth play simply decide everything on the fly based on some judgment, there are necessarily important constraints, they have to do so with integrity, and they also may have to do so WRT some other mechanical constraints, like in PbtA games the GM doesn't arbitrarily get to introduce stuff, it only happens in terms of framing scenes and/or making moves. The players can OFTEN constrain how and when the later happens, and so can dice! In some games it may require GM resources to do so, the existence of certain attributes in the fiction (aspects being a popular implementation), etc. This is all pretty important stuff.I mean, what your quoting is fine in the sense of just being a statement equivalent to "I like High Myth classic GM-Derived Fiction play." It just doesn't say much else! As for the blog... I'm not sure I grok the authors fascination with fairly esoteric philosophical questions. It seems fairly unrelated to the question of the initial post of the thread (though I guess we could argue about the differences in 'unwelcome thing introduction' WRT ones position on game state and rules). I think the "clouds, boxes, and arrows" style of discussion that is meatier than this one though, but that's just my preference.</blockquote>

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