> I'm not hearing the difference, is my essential point. Invariably
> when people complain (or boast) about something "not being
narrative",
> that's the sort of issue they're addressing.
Then they are using the term incorrectly. To conflate "detail-free" with "narrative" is simply wrong.
> the underlying concepts, e.g. of episodic play are nothing that
> required "this is a whole new type of role-playing" rhetoric about
> it.
P'raps - but that is not the interesting bit, the interesting bit is the change in the function of the mechanics from "modelling the world" to "modelling the character". The use of wealth as an ability IS precisely the shift in emphasis which the rhetoric correctly lauded.
> Experiencing _what_ difficulty?
The difficulty grokking how Wealth works in HW, and thus why it cannot be reduced to a table of values and the like.
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