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Right. If I read someone's account of how they use exhaustion/stamina-type conditions for walking long distances, and implement twisted...

I don't understand why. AW has a rule for resolving any declared action. It actually is broader, in that respect, than any version of...

The thing about hit points is that getting hit by something sharp or heavy moving fast is, in most ttrpg settings, the single most...

@mamba Working through those moves as a GM requires a creative process, reasoning about the fiction and making choices about how to...

You seem to think that resolving a player's move, in AW, is profoundly different from resolving a player's declared action, in D&D. I...

I'll bite. How do XP facilitate playing to find out what happens?

Yea, I’m moved away from that handwavey approach. “Class” is a transformation of the soul. The character is aware of it, and the...

"Play to find out" in the way Vincent laid out obviously does not consider how a D&D GM prepares because it's not meant to describe D&D...

Bloody hell, no one said there'd be math! Seriously, that hyphen? is fouling up my reading of this sentence. I keep seeing it as an...

@soviet basically the above. Although my interpretation of, Apocalypse World at least, is that it's far more 'vanilla narrativist' than...

I don't disagree with you about the PbtA mechanics, nor do I believe that the GM can make up whatever they want is a mechanic (and I...

'Play to find out which of two things happen', sounds great.

The GM is playing to find out how it resolves as well. Using the two primary methods the players use. 1) Deciding what their characters...

That is completely false. A player in such a 'modern' game has at least the same type of agency to 'force an outcome' as a player in a...

As per my reply to @thefutilist not far upthread, which talks about RM, I think there are limits in that game (and similar games) to how...