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sam “ludonarrative disinterest” sorensen @samsorensen.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

hello gamers I'm back with another blogpost. this one's about me trying to suss out how different tables play, and the three basic questions I use to draw those differences: samsorensen.blot.im/sams-three-q...

screenshot of a blogpost that reads:

"Sam’s Three-Question Taxonomy

"When I sit down to read a new RPG book or play at a new RPG table, I’ve got three questions in mind. Basically all of my behavior at the table is downstream of these three and their answers.

"I. Is my goal to solve problems, or to tell a good story?

"Both of these are a little reductive in their phrasing, but bear with me."

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sam “ludonarrative disinterest” sorensen @samsorensen.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

it also features this exciting three-axis graph, which I'm sure will never be used in toxic discourse discussions ever

a three-axis graph (like a cube), labeled:
- x-axis (blue): "problem-solving" on one end and "story telling" on the other
- y-axis (green): "authorial" on one end and "non-authorial" on the other
- z-axis (red): "world precedence" on one end and "rules precedence" on the other

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Luna P. @satelitesnaturales.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I'm already making 99 variations of it all saying "THIS is a ttrpg. The rest is mental illness", all at different points of the three axis, and spreading them around different discords

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