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Apocalypse World has a clear set of procedures for doing prep - beginning after the first session - and requires the GM to always say...

There are similarities. One of the big differences is the distinction between setting and situation. A situation is a network of...

I think a lot depends on what you mean by the bolded text. How and when is stuff being created or used to challenge the players and in...

Hells to the no. Analysis is interesting and fun.

The prep you do in Apocalypse World (fronts/threats) is fairly light. As things get established over time defined parts of the setting...

The way I run AW regarding prepped NPCs is the ethos, personality, relationships to other characters and resources are all solid and...

AW takes the opposite approach to prep lightly or Blades potential v actual prep. Always do what your prep demands is a must say. Which...

Frankly I see the dislike as more ideological. My experience here is that, at least in this forum, there's no appetite for an...

I am letting 'functional role-playing' do a whole lot of work aren't I. Plus, if my thesis was totally true then it wouldn't matter much...

Leaving aside agreement or disagreement, BY FAR the simplest type of game to run is a dungeon crawl using a system like B/X that is...

Oh I think our styles are fundamentally different, I was just pointing to some similarities. I'll dig in a bit deeper with a somewhat...

I'll cop to being such a person. I hate rule of cool because I find it leads to a game that lacks consistency in tone and adjudication...

People in general massively over rate systems and how impactful they are. In order of importance it's something like: The people you're...

See we're similar in very broad strokes, I agree with a lot of that list, but there's undoubtedly a handful of very important...

Indirectly, yes. The feeling of trust makes players comfortable enough to take risks and be proactive. Because they are proactive, they...