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Well, as I posted upthread, Map-and-key is a way of having mechanics - in particular, the mechanics for determining where the PCs go on...

Here's an open question to anyone. Say I get sick of Apocalypse World's nonsense. I decide that the failure mechanics don't allow me...

I feel like this is a little reductive or suggests that the Forge was more of a monolith than it was. For BW, by the time of BW...

Yes, but hawkeyefan was specifically talking about improvements in presentation, organization, etc., as things that are generally better...

The bibliography for BW Revised includes Dogs in the Vineyard, Fulminata, Inspectres, My Life With Master, The Riddle of Steel and...

What do you mean by "players having control over the fiction". Players in OD&D and AD&D, who play in the manner set out by Gygax in his...

Sure. Do you have any examples you can share that would support your statement that older games are better when it comes to...

Given that a particular set of RPG mechanics, in conjunction with a particular set of processes of play, really can only provide a...

Why does "you" in the second-last sentence refer to the GM? Can't anyone at the table speak up about their preferences? And why are...

Why can't everybody be the adult? Our roleplay group is pretty static but we've had people's friends join before and at university...

By "theme" I also have in mind things like what aspects of the fiction will the game make salient? For instance, will emotional...

Yeah, I get that impression. Another impression that I get is that there's a reasonable chunk of players who mostly want to play a...

So much of these kinds of threads is really about who you play with and whether they are engaged with the game.

The idea that a table needs to be "controlled", or that players need to be "kept in line", is bizarre to me. Do people have this same...

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