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Let's suppose a game, let's call it a PbtA, where the interest is centered outside the characters. That is, while the action is still...

Mechanically the changes are pretty straightforward. As I said in another post, the real change is in attitude towards the players...

I gotta say, AW is pretty strong about wanting things to stay in character, and DW is also rather explicit here. But that being said...

"Optimizing the fiction" to shape the outcome range is definitely part of what I see as fiction-first gameplay, for the games that bring...

Ok, but 'process of play' is the thing you are designing! By explicitly focusing, like a laser on that as the base level of game design...

Well, yes. I'm not talking about playing OSR or anything in its realm where "the solving of problems via player skill" is a significant...

I just recently re-read the first three books of the Nightrunner Series, every dang roguish moment either happens as narration (he...

Don't overplay this too much. I've, for example, played in a few PbtAs GMed by @Manbearcat. I feel pretty sure he'd be HAPPY in the...

IMHO there was almost nothing that changed between original D&D through AD&D 2e, they're fairly modest variants and updates of basically...

No, it's about what failure means for play. My players fail to get their full intent all the time. We had a crap ton of 6-s rolled last...

"Your weapon belt snags on a sharp rock and you watch in horror as your blade falls with a clang to the bottom." Or, same idea, but the...

Right. I just see, mechanically, a slight variant of d20 almost straight out of 3.5e. Saves are translated into defenses, and...

I think the conservatism also shows in the description of "It was certainly a pretty radical departure of design from what came before...

I think it is worth mentioning that GNS was NEVER about people, or games, it was about PLAY. Even in that sense its author has since...

I think this captures my feeling on the subject as well, both as a player and as a GM. As a player, I don't see or feel any difference...