Well, sure, but also no…
Fiction is lineated by creating new paragraphs, not stacking them. In general, IF is lineated the same way, which is why @jasonstevanhill said don’t use *line_break for things other than poetry or lists.
I can’t elaborate on Jason’s remark that HG writers tend to universally misuse *line_break, but I have had more than one COG author turn in a first draft with double *line_breaks for each hard return, and I don’t know why, except I think the wiki is written very unclearly on this point, and may be perpetuating that as a thing, when it is truly not a thing. A few tidbits about ifs and gotos and errors - #27 by Mary_Duffy