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I'll accept there have to be some assumptions. A card game often assumes that the players know what it means, for instance, to shuffle...

Just spit balling, but, my version of a Binder Warlock would leverage invocations. You bind a vestige and get X number of invocations...

Here are some examples - actual play reports - of player-driven RPGing: * Burning Wheel, where I'm the player; you can see how the GM...

That's a good point. I can definitely see the difference between the GM creating a mass of stuff for players to pick and choose from...

In my experience, they are certainly connected. I don't think that makes it a necessity. One can have a player-driven game that is an...

I'm not sure about the amount of detail needed. I have ran a couple super successful player driven Vampire games, and they are set in a...

I'd go so far as to say that that is probably bad advice.

Site-crawling can also be done improv-style. I just generally frame it as "Ok, who built this? What were they using it for? Who is...

I know reading and running Burning Wheel helped alot procedurally due to the fact that BW is purpose built to run player driven sandbox...

I don't play online. Honestly I have no idea how to work all that kind of stuff. The basics of prep is to get the players to setup a...

I’ve seen that at times. I think it shows a lack of understanding on the part of the person saying it.

I've been running player driven games for more than 30 years. My games always have consistent narrative momentum that makes sense. They...

Just FYI, I ran a game of BitD that went longer than 50 sessions. The game does have elements in there that support it. You generally...

That’s entirely a feature of the XP/action system, and not anything inherent to the world design though. Grab a similar pressure cooker...

That's fair. But, characters live in that world. When player asks "what things", it can also mean "what things are there that my...