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The GM is playing to find out how it resolves as well. Using the two primary methods the players use. 1) Deciding what their characters...

Good post although I think it somewhat confirms my point that there are loads of different interpretations of what play to find out...

I'm honestly not sure what people mean when they say 'play to find out what happens', I've seen it used in a load of different ways...

This is also the way I see it. Although your view may be more nuanced than mine. It could also be that there are two camps or...

Well, as I posted upthread, Map-and-key is a way of having mechanics - in particular, the mechanics for determining where the PCs go on...

Here's an open question to anyone. Say I get sick of Apocalypse World's nonsense. I decide that the failure mechanics don't allow me...

Thing is Monsterhearts is not a tool - it's a game. Someone say using a Cortex Drama hack to play a game with a similar premise is not...

That's why I've specifically said I don't think that it makes as much sense to speak about mechanics as it does how they are implemented...

@pemerton expressed my thoughts so well that what follows amounts to footnotes. Forge philosophy relies on intent but is also...

I can tell you what I took away from your "aimless" comment (and some of the elaboration/discussion it prompted, eg from @Campbell): A...

I find the entire concept of general use games versus specialized games to be one of the more silly ideas in the hobby because it...