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Not @Crimson Longinus but I'll take a guess: the question is whether - in the clocks example - you're looking at the state of the...

I have Apocalypse World 2e. I have read properly ages ago, and I've been skimming ti lately. To me it seems simpler. The moves are...

So I have played maybe one session of Apocalypse World about which I remember basically nothing. But by the rules, I think PbtA is way...

OK, fair enough. I certainly agree. Because you can usually also use the special armour for something else, to push yourself, so you...

But whether the eventual fiction is vivid is not what we are talking about here. We are talking about what comes first. And I just do...

yeah, that is usually tends to be the sentiment I try to convey with it. But if basically all RPGs are "fiction first" then it is...

I think the question was pretty clear. On what basis do you make decisions about resisting a consequence, evoking a special armour etc...

I would not call it railroading per se, but it is rather heavy handed in way that I can understand the player's frustration. But a lot...

There has to be more to it than that, I'd think, else this is just a rewording of the basic granular play loop common to all RPGs...

So I actually agree with you here to a point. Mechanics can be tools to communicate the understanding that the characters have. The...

I mean based on your criteria, "fiction first" is meaningless; there is no RPG published that isn't that, as in any RPG the most rules...

I mean that is best part of most RPGs, and definitely of our Blades games. But of course this does not mean there are no stakes, as even...

I think you have provided decent context here, but its still hard to say. Was the campaign a sandbox where the players can do anything...

You can reference the mechanics plenty to my mind, and in my preference, so long as those mechanics are modeling something real in the...

Yes, most games have mechanics, and players probably engage with the mechanics. But the gameplay can also become mostly about mechanics...