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Right, but when we were playing, this is where everyone got in on interpreting what that means in the fiction precisely, and how to use...

I can’t deny your feeling and experience, but I don’t understand this based on the way the game is supposed to be run afaik. When the...

I'm looking at this and this from the SRD: The Players Each player creates a character and works with the other players to create the...

It's an interesting thought. To build on my post not far upthread, which riffed on your "travelogue" point, I'm inclined to say: the...

Vincent Baker has an interesting blog about the relationship, in Apocalypse World play, between the core activity of "the conversation"...

I've never played BitD or S&V. But based on what I know about them, what you say here makes sense: player's declare actions; rules are...

I mean, you’re playing S&V. The game gives you Actions which are the sorts of things characters in War Stars and Firefly do. It asks how...

If it can count as unified if it also adds a damage determination system as a consequence of a successful attack roll, then I think...

I'd say that unified core mechanics is what I'd consider to have been modern in the 1980s - and even D&D has been on this style for half...

Yeah it’s more an illustration than something I’d recommend. You can just take a resolution system and as long as you’re playing to find...

Yes, this is true. I think it's quite different from actually having the story manifest during play.

I'm not entirely sure what you have in mind. I mean, yes, you'll get a series of events that occur. But is that all you mean?

I'm not sure what you mean by "what player choices or actions are curtailed?" I mean, the most straightforward answer is none. But...

At minimum you need: Some kind of organisational question which we’re answering The principle that you are actually playing to find...

None of the games that I mentioned enforce a 3/5 act structure. As to 'what do you give up?", I don't really follow the question...