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Good list! For these two, I think maybe Over the Edge (1992) is the modern beginning. A bit later, Maelstrom Storytelling (1998, from...

Well you need to understand what the constituent parts are doing to use them well but more fundamentally the text can't give you an...

A few things: What I've found as a player and GM in a game like Apocalypse World (or more trad games generally), is that changing...

I'm so so so tired of people on the internet parroting about how you shouldn't prepare absolutely anything in AW. That's not supported...

None of that really talks to my central issue. My issue was that introducing backstory on failure interferes with prep so why bother...

So what I mean when I say high improv is that the resolution mechanics can introduce characters and retcon motivations and...

An addendum to the above post: upthread someone talked about sim vs "gamism" in the context of classic Gygaxian D&D. For the game to...

For me, "play to find out what happens" - if it is to be meaningful - has to include the GM. So I see any notion of the GM having a...

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...