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Right, it's telling you not to wuss out! If Drago would slit Frank's throat, that's what happens. If the players haven't secured the...

AW takes the opposite approach to prep lightly or Blades potential v actual prep. Always do what your prep demands is a must say. Which...

Those exploratory situations happened quite a bit in our play. Do you go up the stairs or down the hall? BitD isn't a game that is built...

What are you defining as Narrativist here? As a dynamic of play, BITD fully supports it. It also supports much stronger up-front GM...

Yeah, we're not going to agree and I think you are missing a very key piece in terms of the degree of control over fiction that trad...

Just go by the game text! DW is a low/zero myth game, for example. You start play at a blank slate, no pre-existing fiction. During...

BitD scene framing is pretty similar to AW/DW I think, but I have not GMed it, so I might be missing something. Really, the BitD GM is...

Oye, yes, and AW/DW is exactly parsimonious with its process/rules, and uses that to very clearly communicate how the game works. Yet at...

I’m not basing it solely on that. I’m basing it on his posts in this thread as well as his views on @robertsconley ’s games, and the...

So, with all of these, what I see is a manifestation of the Dungeon World "when the players look at you, make a move" concept. In none...

it isn't about 'good communications', your assertion was that using game mechanics was to 'communicate how a campaign works', and I am...

I've seen it mentioned online in places. It's not something I've encountered a lot in actual play. Most players seem to want to avoid...

I'm not sure I would consider BitD to be a process of GM presenting hooks. IME the players are the ones saying things like "the...

I think basically this view is, in part, outdated. Techniques and approaches to running RPGs, and thus the associated game designs, have...

1) This thread is over 800 pages long. Do not expect everyone to have seen your magic hat example. 2) While maybe you make all random...