Happy Saturday, Zeal!

I want to shout out my latest video where I'm *finally* talking about Mork Borg, after folks have been asking me to for years 😅

I am super proud of this video, I did a lot of new things with the filming and think it looks great.

youtu.be/kBg82hIi0v4

Happy Saturday folks!

For me, I want to shout out my latest video where I'm finally talking about Mork Borg.

I am super proud of this video, I did a lot of new things with the filming and think it looks great.

youtu.be/kBg82hIi0v4

For me, I want to shout out my latest video where I'm finally talking about Mork Borg.

I am super proud of this video, I did a lot of new things with the filming and think it looks great.

youtu.be/kBg82hIi0v4

For me, a narrative-forward system is one where the player declares "I want to do X" as intent THEN they figure out how that happens within the text of the rules. A mechanics-forward system is one where the player looks at their sheet and says "I want to do [specific] Y" and then result is narrated.

That's not to say that such a game ISN'T narrative (doesn't have story, narrative stakes, etc), but the more the rules "get in the way" of me doing the thing I want because I have to jump through their hoops, the less narrative and more mechanics-forward it becomes for me.

It's all a spectrum, which is why I prefer a selection of defining terms vs one when trying to describe a given game. But for me, if I'm looking through a bunch of different options on my character sheet to decide what to do, I feel like I'm no longer playing a narrative-forward game.

A "mechanics" forward game is more likely to codify those different options into distinct features, and if you want to do one of those things you have to engage with the mechanics (of either character creation or the system itself) to do so.

For me, the balance of narrative/mechanics forward game comes down to how and where the text codifies action.

A "narrative" game might give you a broad option, such as "kick some ass" that can be flavored in a million different ways at the table, but still arrives at the same mechanical result.