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Originally Posted by Jim Kane
Or is it both you seek? Are they combined; where one is the Story-Engine, and other is the Story-Fuel?
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This.
I love how you phrase that: the Story-Engine and the Story-Fuel. Elegantly put.
Steve gave us a meta-setting in Cidri, and showed us how it could grow in the two "Lords" settings. He also gave us an example of a dungeon in
Tollenkar's Lair. He gave us the underpinnings of a milieu with economics, and non-adventuring talents and spells, and races and such. He even gave us ideas for further developments: Thorz, anyone?
There was much to learn from what he gave us. But it took time. And I have absolutely no doubt that he -- we all -- have far more to share with new players than we had almost 40 years ago when we were new players ourselves.
I'd love to see the lessons a GM could glean from those works formalized. Hand it to me on a silver platter. Give it to me as exposition IN ADDITION to example.