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My view of sim play is mixed. I think the idea of relying on mechanics to specify outcomes of declared actions, by...

I don't follow you here. :P There certainly are a few ways to slice 'play to find out", but several of the posts her are just wrong...

A lot of it is a reaction to bad nineties adventure paths. There has always been a tendency for adventure paths to be read more than...

I don't disagree with you about the PbtA mechanics, nor do I believe that the GM can make up whatever they want is a mechanic (and I...

@soviet basically the above. Although my interpretation of, Apocalypse World at least, is that it's far more 'vanilla narrativist' than...

I think this is too proscriptive and would seem to suggest that narrativist play isn't possible outside of games specifically built for...

shrug If you say so. I've discussed this before, and in other contexts, so it's not worth arguing about. I think people misunderstand...

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...