Narrative fallout is often offered as a way to escape failure in narrative TTRPGs. This post analyses three systems implementing “costly success” and concludes with an observation, a hypothesis, and a gameplay option.
Tag: Theory Thursday
Theory Thursday–Success or Failure? Yes
Cortex Prime changes the very concepts of success and failure, there’s a cognitive science theory that can prove it, and a few visuals are all that’s needed to show how.
Theory Thursday–The Logic of Discovery in RPGs (Part III)
Community feedback from Part I & II made me realize what really matters about in-game discovery. Here’s the result, with due credit where credit’s due.
Theory Thursday–The Logic of Discovery in RPGs (Part II)
I put the logic of discovery to work in one of my games and it worked well enough. It’s gametale time.
Theory Thursday–The Logic of Discovery in RPGs (Part I)
Bringing the logic of discovery to the gaming table has some advantages. This post is about them.
The Polverine 