Recent content by Faolyn

I have him blocked, so it's unlikely he'll see me.

That's why I included "If you do X" and "If you do Y." That's a big shame. One of the great things about my group is that we will talk our problems out. Sometimes that means talking about it later; other times it means putting the game on pause. It depends about the nature of the problem. As a...

He's not talking about "long tedious rules debates" being mature. He's talking about talking problems out with the group as being mature, whereas table-flipping (or its verbal equivalents) to be immature. If you leave a game and just ghost the DM, that's immature. If you leave a game and say "I...

The difference is the fiction. Because the actual game exists only in the imagination, it's up to us to justify why anything works the way it does. In a sim game that justification was done by the writers who created a table or otherwise listed why something acts or doesn't act the way it does...

Not me. I've had bad GMs, but their bad GMing was unrelated to the style of game. Narrative games are, for me, just what I really enjoy.

To be fair, Hope/Fear and Stress aren't class-based metacurrencies. They're generic metacurrencies that are used across all classes and by the GM as well.

In order to get data for social science, you still have to perform structured experiments. You need to define the variables, actually design the experiment, analyze the data, and so forth. The gaming table is not a structured experiment, and I doubt that many, if any, players or GMs have...

It's well known now how bees fly--they flap their wings in figure eights. Amusingly, the dragons--or at least the swam dragons--in the Discworld books do fly like jets. With propulsion flames coming out of their butts.

And if the more experienced GMs and players are actually really bad at what they do?

So how would you suggest that new GMs learn these responsibilities?

And that's why PbtA and similar games have lists of GM agendas, principles, and moves--so they either have a way to unlearn that mentality, or never acquire it in the first place.

If the combat has been going on for more than a couple of rounds, and there have already been successful attacks against someone, then the slick spot is a pool of blood. You're not having a combat in a featureless room; you're out in the wilderness or in a cave or something like that, and you...