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I like to use one-shots as pickup games when members of the group are absent and the regular campaign wouldn't really function properly...

@thefutilist Your post just upthread, about AW procedures, made me think about an episode of Torchbearer 2e GMing this weekend, when...

This conversation inspired me to go back to AW and formalise and tighten up what I’d do. My word is it complicated. The way threats are...

Here's another example from cards: One way to lose a hand of bridge or five hundred is to get unlucky in the deal. If I'm dealt four...

Principles (at least in Apocalypse World) not advice or suggestions. They are instructions. The game says, "Always say what your...

We've had all sorts of town phases in my game. Some like what you describe, some more successful for the players (and PCs). Probably the...

I haven't followed every twist and turn of your game, here, so it is possible the grind has been just as harsh as ours was. Our game...

One is a mechanic and the other isn't? We aren't just talking about results here - the difference is the tool, not the output, and...

Here's a brief episode of RPG play: My PC arrived at the dungeon entrance, and went down the stairs. There were two Orc guards waiting...

I feel like your TB2e play, @pemerton , is rather less gritty and grubby and more freewheeling than ours was. We had some interesting...

It's certainly possible! The players in my game feel that it is absolutely brutal. Because of the way things have played out, they've...

Yeah, I think you are definitely right about Agon 2e. The Island for each session kind of sets up parameters in a way similar to what...

This is another place where experience with Agon is useful. There can be a very definite tendency to try to find the 'right'...

In our long-running 5e game we used to do one-shot games for flash backs into characters' pasts. Everyone would roll up a new character...

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