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I'm not sure how you're envisaging the randomly-generated content actually being introduced into play. There are different ways to do...

Here is the relevant rules text, from p 6 of In A Wicked Age (I've elided some stuff that deals with particular mechanics and examples)...

The post is about how latent scenes are established, and how latent scenes become "activated"/"triggered" and hence actual episodes of...

The OP does not say what you say that it says:

I agree with you about being forward facing, so the players don't have to guess the stakes. When the skill system is leveraged in the...

The version of this I'm most familiar with is the 4e skill challenge. Just thinking it through, the challenge consists of: *A threat...

One alternative to Map and Key that may fall under Event Based (maybe?) is the reliance on Clocks/Countdowns of a goal with GM fronted...

Interesting topic Permerton. As someone who runs a lot of Superhero games, and never includes maps in my prep or scenario design, this...

Yeah, I believe they are pretty much identical modulus a detail or two perhaps, though I am much more familiar with AW2e, which uses...

I know the rules/procedures for AW fronts better than DW fronts. But I think they're fairly similar, so I'll take the risk of talking...

A lot of thinking and discussion about the play of RPGs seems to default to an assumption of map-and-key play. Here is what I mean by...

The player wants to hit the Orc, they find out if successful by rolling the dice. The player wants the runes to indicate the way out...

And yet… no one posting in this thread who is familiar with these kinds of games shares your concern. Why do you think that is? Are we...

Yes, I know. That was my point.

What you call a "mental map" some of us just call memory. But suppose that he had never travelled in Moria, but had read a description...