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There is no 'setting' in AW, it's a purely Zero Myth game, beyond identifying a genre (post apocalypse). Player's choices of play book...

I don't understand what this means: I don't know what features are or are not being discarded, nor what is separating what from what...

I honestly don't understand. My point is simply that drawing lots, and winning is not the same as deciding. That's it. Do you disagree...

I know what AW says. From p 109 (of the original rulebook): Apocalypse World divvies the conversation up in a strict and pretty...

I like this example. It illustrates the very many parameters that designers have to work with. In the MHRP example, the GM makes the...

I'm not so sure. I mean, I agree that's the simplest level of play, but let's imagine I'm playing DW, and I'm fleeing from some terrible...

Yeah I stand corrected. In DW bonds are written during the session wrap up, along with allocation of XP for certain things, and leveling...

What is being skirted around? I've been clear about resolution processes, about low- vs high-stakes stuff, etc, throughout this thread...

I take it that you mean by this I prefer not to play RPGs in which those sorts of connections affect the roll. Or are you stating a...

As I've posted, Marvel Heroic RP uses a framework of Scene Distinctions. These are invitations to the players to interact with them...

Thank you.

All these posts boil down to is restating "I don't like it because..." over and over with different contrived straw arguments, willfully...

MHRP is not GM-less. It is just a game - like many other RPGs conceived of since 1975 - that does not confine the determination of...

In AW, as I said, "Make the player's characters lives not boring" and "Be a fan of the player's characters". In Burning Wheel...

The "fundamental difference" is that there is a causal process involving the player and the fiction - the resolution of the player's...