Paul Beakley – I mean it all works out obviously. Scenes work! But I think they work because there’s this cloud of unexamined assumptions that have built up in our cultures of play.

I think that’s true. I also think that watching as much TV and movies as we do has ingrained a sense of what a scene is in most people. Your comment above reminds me of Emily Care Boss’s thing that genre is this huge, unexamined mess of assumed understanding that nonetheless does a great job of bringing people together to play RPGs. They don’t work without some level of shared culture a lot of the times.