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

The agenda and principles are hard, in so much as they do tell you how to generate fiction. They’re soft in that they can be replaced...

If/when I need to think about it more formally I consider all characters as a priority stack. So it would look something like. Jim...

Our last conversation about this was interesting. It got me thinking the constraints + authenticity are really the important part in...

IAWA acts as training wheels in that regard I think. Apocalypse world gets more complex with it though and is like the advanced version...

it's a really pithy way to point to the difference. I like it.

Ok, we did this for 700+ pages in that Sandbox thread last year. This is why I've been trying to say there's different styles of...

Right, I think this ties back to my post a few pages ago. If what you're doing is basically pre-creating a big swathe of content for...

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...

Don't worry about that! I don't think you are. And I always find your posts pretty interesting, although I don't know if always grasp...

If one has time to think it through in depth, e.g. between sessions, mulling over various ideas can be really inspiring. On the fly in...

I was about to point this out, but you beat me to it... ;) Overall though, this does feel like your gut reaction is similar to where I...

Well the question is, how does the event change him? I need to know how he’s changed before I make any subsequent moves. The way I...

There are generic narrativist principles that Apocalypse World doesn’t spell out that are far more important than most of the principles...