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I think the team with parts is a feature of several of the folktales you mention, and it's certainly true of some of the fantasy...

Something we may want to examine is if that last point, which is certainly true of classic D&D and well as much OSR play is still...

Nothing breaks, especially in MotW which (like a lot of PbtA games) has starting characters that are pretty professional and skilled...

I was editing my post as you posted. I'd forgotten how much Nilsson filed off and altered from the older games that inspired MB. It's...

Mork Borg isn't really that modern, it's an OSR game and based very solidly on some very old games and mechanics (older than Harn for...

I don't think that the 'trope' currently exemplified by classes really existed in the literature at the time in anything like the same...

It's a fine question. Just as with any game that has an advancement scheme, it depends on how quickly the PCs progress. The PbtA chassis...

I hope you aren't disagreeing with me as there's no declarative statements there to really disagree with. The playstyle I mention exists...

Upthread, I posted quite a bit about some sorts of approaches to the setting-oriented RPGing that you describe: These posts advance...

For Masks and MotW it depends on what you mean by long-term. You certainly can play ongoing campaigns with both those systems, but it's...

I don't think that's an obvious claim at all. I might buy this in some ways in terms of characters, but it doesn't obviously apply to...

Okay. But contemporary refers to what is current and happening now. The fact that contemporary classical music started in 1945 doesn't...

Thank you! The above is definitely my preferred method of play.

IDK, I've always thought that 'class' came back pretty directly to things like Bilbo being a burglar, Aragorn being a ranger, or Conan...

Even in a player-driven game, it's still the GM's role to determine complications and to frame opposition to the player's goals. The...