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That same loose hand is what can often make play less certain for the players. 5e was designed loosely so that GMs could plug the gaps...

Frankly I see the dislike as more ideological. My experience here is that, at least in this forum, there's no appetite for an...

Leaving aside agreement or disagreement, BY FAR the simplest type of game to run is a dungeon crawl using a system like B/X that is...

I think it is at least true that many such systems are fairly focused. I'm not sure DW is a great example of that. It covers the general...

Oh, well, it's a good question! So, look at the constraints that Dungeon World establishes. I don't have the text in front of me, but...

I don't believe you actually get more 'power'. It's a game anyway, seems weird to me to even talk in those terms. DW more clearly...

Well, I was running 4e for my friends for a few years like that. Same people I gamed with all through most of the '80s, and '90s too...

I don't really consider bad faith in any of these discussions either. Most of us are far past that, and in any case it is entirely aside...

Right, as I replied to Robert, I agree. I just don't think it constrains the GM much at all. When I run DW I simply have ADDITIONAL...

Well, yes. I agree entirely with that. I just couldn't find any real hint of constraints in any of it. That is, beyond the basic one of...

Right. The general 'how it goes' of the world is pretty predictable. We can be fairly confident that certain ongoing current events will...

There were three popes in two-and-a-half months in 1978. Weird stuff happens.

This is a hugely important point. Nothing in the world is actually likely to happen, it is all vastly improbable chains of events. It's...

I mean, when you look at the rest of the galaxy, Earth starts to look pretty implausible. :)

Well, that strength does have the downside of being not necessarily interesting to others. I'm not interested in Apocalypse World...