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Those engaging in this thread, but I'm sure you realised that. Only you can answer that. It wasn't a trump card, merely that not even...

In 5e (2014) at least, the attacker absolutely can (if using a melee weapon) get to decide if the enemy they reduce to 0HP lives or...

I prefer it when mechanics and narrative align myself, too, but it seems a more granular system would be more to your tastes (which...

Putting aside the political connotations of the word, conservatism is simply about wanting to maintain some form of status quo, so if...

I've seen @The Firebird corrected that they meant director stance, but if it helps understanding in the future, it's worth noting that...

In some cases, yeah. That's not the gotcha you seem to be trying to present.

This seems contradictory to what you've said here: The setting is the purview of the GM in Apocalypse World, right?* I'm genuinely...

Didn't realise Tuovinen was posting in this thread. If you interpreted my post as trying to pick a fight, you may have read more...

By this token, BitD and AW would be GM-driven/centred in your view, no?

This was basically what I was getting at with my question about BitD and such, but you put it more succinctly.

If we're being accurate (read: pedantic), Watsonian vs Doylist originated as a framework for literary analysis in terms of in-world...

It seems more like specifying what winning the lottery will amount to. What the prize is. Deciding the prize isn't the same as deciding...

Since you've played D&D, you should know what they're talking about--the GM didn't decide ahead of time what the runes were, and the...

Meh. Almost any game with any sort of options to it can be played any way. Even the least gamist, most narrativist/simulationist gamer...

Where did that one grain of sand come from, pemerton? No, that that one - the other one. The one there, next to that bit of shell...