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Should not be related in what way? The cook is a potential observer to the lock picking attempt. They are not independent. You may...

Gygax's DMG says this (p 61): The system assumes much activity during the course of each round. Envision, if you will, a fencing...

Yes. And I've given you some examples, but you're contesting them. For instance, you seem to think that an hour of play managing...

Why is it a bad term? Has anyone who sat down to GM Apocalypse World ever been confused or led astray by it? Here is the parallel...

When doors are unexpectedly opened by burglars, the people behind them may get startled. Good burglars are good at avoiding this (by...

The framing of social conflict in a lot of those early games is a bit under developed. As a rule they don't want to force a priority...

Really? Because you were talking about things needing to be connected just a week-ish ago.

An attribute/ability rating in Cortex+ represents something - eg Godlike Strength d12 represents that the character has godlike...

Surely you're capable of appreciating that your approach to RPGing is not the only one that people engage in or aspire to.

I don't know. I mean, to me it seems pretty weak, unless there is something at stake in trying one of those different options (my...

Heaven forbid that the fiction in a RPG be affected by (i) the actions the players declare for their PCs, and (ii) their success or...

I don't know what you mean by "rising conflict" or "rising action". I don't see a long discussion of how many pitons the PCs have, how...

I realise this. But it involves the GM telling the player what the PC experiences, and hence what the PC believes. What you say only...

Right. Here's an example, the I already posted upthread I think: Of course, there is an in-fiction rationale for both PCs' changing...

I mean… I’m not sure how that is still unclear.