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Disregarding what it means to be player driven or not I would say that play where we are spending substantial amounts of time exploring...

Right. Let me give an example: I had a 5e character, way back when 5e was brand new. The game was set in my sister's pre-existing game...

Well here I would say, I think this isn't the case as a general matter. The players not inputing creating setting elements, doesn't mean...

Why do the players have constraints? Well like I said, Harper designed Doskvol with a mind for the fiction but also with a mind for...

I understand your frustration. I’ve been thinking about this too, and as folks have probably noticed, I like to dig into what...

Please learn what logical fallacies are before involving them!

I'm just thinking in terms of what people do, like around here they're drifting their 5e play more Narrativist, or maybe they're...

Well, it has enough detail to get things going. I mean, to me, it certainly feels much more coherent than most of the Forgotten Realms...

Right, GMs are flush with power in BitD, etc. I don't really subscribe to the idea that there's some zero-sum kind of pool of authority...

Well, I been doing this since 1975. I don't claim to be some genius, but there's definitely things you seem to be missing. It isn't...

But in AW all that exists is material created for the express purpose of addressing the PCs and things related to them or at the very...

The way I run AW regarding prepped NPCs is the ethos, personality, relationships to other characters and resources are all solid and...

The prep you do in Apocalypse World (fronts/threats) is fairly light. As things get established over time defined parts of the setting...

I need to read AW again, more carefully, but I think you can both hold prep lightly and still say what your prep demands, for certain...

No, it's not. The examples of play provided do not look much like Narrativist play I am familiar with. MUCH more is prepped, it's...