Practical question: Can the DM and players switch roles in the course of one “run” or does the DM have to remain the same individual? What else has to be continuous or uniform about the run? Does there have to be one overarching plot or just continuous narrative?
My coauthor and myself generated the sample run by taking turns on Action, Thought, Prompt. That is, I wrote an Action, she wrote a Thought, I wrote a Prompt, she wrote an Action, I wrote a Thought, she wrote a Prompt. This also helped show up immediately when a Thought underspecified a Prompt, because it meant the Thought and Prompt were never written by the same person.
More coherent overall plot is better—that current systems are terrible at this is all the more reason to try to show a dataset of it being done better. There doesn’t necessarily need to be an advance-planned endpoint which gets foreshadowed; that is demanding a bit much of the author when they’re dealing with somebody else’s Actions or when people are taking turns on the Thoughts.
Practical question: Can the DM and players switch roles in the course of one “run” or does the DM have to remain the same individual? What else has to be continuous or uniform about the run? Does there have to be one overarching plot or just continuous narrative?
My coauthor and myself generated the sample run by taking turns on Action, Thought, Prompt. That is, I wrote an Action, she wrote a Thought, I wrote a Prompt, she wrote an Action, I wrote a Thought, she wrote a Prompt. This also helped show up immediately when a Thought underspecified a Prompt, because it meant the Thought and Prompt were never written by the same person.
More coherent overall plot is better—that current systems are terrible at this is all the more reason to try to show a dataset of it being done better. There doesn’t necessarily need to be an advance-planned endpoint which gets foreshadowed; that is demanding a bit much of the author when they’re dealing with somebody else’s Actions or when people are taking turns on the Thoughts.
(These questions affect whether I could even consider attempting this. If I can I’ll apply and talk directly with MIRI people about it.)