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Yeah it’s more an illustration than something I’d recommend. You can just take a resolution system and as long as you’re playing to find...

I'm not sure what you mean by "what player choices or actions are curtailed?" I mean, the most straightforward answer is none. But...

At minimum you need: Some kind of organisational question which we’re answering The principle that you are actually playing to find...

To expand on this: someone (I think it was Ron Edwards) once said that an RPG needs to have some things that are fixed, and some things...

Slugblaster is a good example of a game that creates story but where the player doesn’t create story. Not in any meaningful way, they...

Yeah it’s a story to me. I’m making character choices based on what they would do but it’s through the prism of value rather than...

@thefutilist Your post just upthread, about AW procedures, made me think about an episode of Torchbearer 2e GMing this weekend, when...

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...