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If you read the Apocalypse World rules, you'll see that "Make the players' character's lives not boring" and "Be a fan of the players'...

In what way are the rules for Apocalypse World unclear?

That's what you think, huh? That when Vince and Meg Baker wrote Apocalypse World, that they said "we need some marketing phrases that...

Do you feel that way about dice rolls/mechanics resulting in character death?

Other than gaining some biographical information that you’re willing to cut away a broad swathe of games and play techniques to fulfill...

I think you’ll have to explain why it matters, because it seems like a fair amount of people (myself included) aren’t understanding this...

In the game in question, there wasn’t really any option to negotiate their action declarations. The issue was a cliff that they needed...

But . . . but . . . my results table goes to 11!

But that’s just terminology. It doesn’t matter. 10 is the “success with complications” target, 15 is the “success free and clear”...

Why can't the GM say: "If you fail, then <whatever> will happen"? @hawkeyefan gave an example upthread, along the lines of "Sure, you're...

I don't know what you intend by "fail forward at a mechanical level". The mechanical level is rolling some dice and identifying a...

If the GM rolls a NPC's to hit die, and it succeeds, that dictates stuff about how my PC behaved: did I dodge? was I taken in by the...

That was not the situation, though. It wasn't that there were no consequences and the character could try again and again. What I did...

I've certainly used it in 3.5, PF, 4e, and 5e. It's fairly trivial to use. "Oh, you failed your arcana check to identify the runes...

Like I said, Max... time to shrug and move on. Very little of what you said above makes sense to me. All I can do is recommend that...