Lofgeornost
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Yeah. I think this is called ‘creative nonfiction’ sometimes, though of course anything in most game books is in a sense fiction, since it’s about an imaginary place, people, etc. Unless of course it’s not—i.e. a city book about Berlin in the 1920s for Call of Cthulhu would include some nonfiction.One of the issues with RPGs, generally speaking and IMO, is that the really good ones are a odd beast, comprised of perhaps equal parts technical writing and short fiction. By short fiction I don't mean short stories I mean really short evocative writing, often at the sentence or paragraph level. Rules on the one hand, good rules, and on the other writing that makes you see a picture in your head that won't let you put the book down until you've added to it some how.