Macro

1. Invitation
   • The leader invites the player into the narrative threads by initiating or continuing the collective storytelling, often by describing where the PC is, what they sense, and what is about to happen.
   • The purpose of invitations is to immerse the player in the life of their character.
   • The leader must pay attention to the meta and establish relevance for each individual act. (p. 74)
2. Pre-Stance
   • The leader adopts a stance designed to prompt the player to either act or react to the invitation.
   • Before: An invitation to react. The leader presents a conflict that the player characters must address. This often ends in questions like: “What do you do?”
   • Behind: An invitation to act. The leader allows the players to take action on their own. Tools here often include patience or encouragement to explore and act based on their character’s focus as defined in their tagbook.
3. Consequence
   • Consequences are a crucial element in acknowledging the existence of actors within the fictional world and establishing their existential connection.
   • They play a significant role in creating realism and credibility in storytelling.
   • The consequence can vary in intensity and depends on the specific context and the quantity or quality of the tags in use.

Micro

1. Act or React
   • The player describes their character’s act in the first person.
   • The leader decides if it is relevant that the act may fail or whether there is any chance of success at all.
2. It May Fail
   • Tags: The player presents one or more tags relevant to the act – the leader decides if they are relevant. (p. 80)
   • In cases where there are insufficient tags in quantity or quality, a positive result is a trade.
3. Tags
   • Tags can count positively in some contexts and negatively in others.
   • The context can include tags that can be subtracted from or added to the roll.
   • In cases of character versus character, the other character’s relevant tags are subtracted from the acting character’s tags.
   • Increasing the number of positive tags will enhance the outcome of the act.
4. Roll
   • The Player rolls 2d6 +/- the amount of tags.
5. Post-Stance
   • The leader chooses the stance from which the consequence of the act will be described.
   • Before: The leader describes what happens.
   • Beside: The leader, along with the player, describes what happens.
   • Behind: The player describes what happens on their own.
6. Position (additional notes)
   • Position depends on the player’s competencies within the realm of role-playing, the knowledge of the group regarding the leader’s narrative, and other factors.
   • No one position is better than another – it always depends on the narrative effect and power the leader desires or needs in a given context. (p.76)