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I find it difficult, with my experience, to believe that most people aren't after a bit more exciting vs less exciting, slower paced...

None that I've ever played or run. I'm sure it is possible, but our 1e AD&D campaign degenerated into a mishmash of 1e, Boot Hill, Fight...

People are creatures of habit and they invest in specific ways of doing things. I mean, I grew up on AD&D. While I grew tired of certain...

I think this is a very good point and it gets at an issue I had with a D&D adjacent game, PF2. In PF2, you can make a Medicine roll...

If anyone running DW is moving you backwards on a 7+, they're not following the rules. Here's the difference though, 7+ advances the...

I think this is a misunderstanding here. Even in games that aren’t focused on coherent narrative, the core point still applies. This is...

First of all, MANY GMs would say that you're halfway up the wall! Heck, 3e very certainly regulates the distance covered by a climbing...

I think we agree. I happen to think PbtA type games do a bit more than that, but certainly in a game like AW every player move has...

It's a lot more like American Football and rugby. Maybe even American Football and soccer.

No, not really, they're just different, but pretty analogous. Neither is better. Why the insecurity?

Eh, there's both more and less differences than you imagine. Playing AW is related to playing 5e as MLB is to high school baseball...

What exactly do you mean by 'correlates to more traditional games'. There are differences, and many similarities, which have been...

As someone who likes them both... Yes, but not in the way you probably mean the question. For example, both games can produce (what I...

Yeah, I always thought that D&D's leveling system is one of the best reasons it is so often used for long campaigns. It was certainly...

I don't think I understand this viewpoint, or at least I lack the perspective necessary to empathize with it. If I'm roleplaying an...