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As it is, then. If my prior posts didn't make that clear, my elaborating further is unlikely to.

If you'll note, I'm mostly applying it to games that are not only apparently misaimed (which I do think can be a problem, but a lesser...

That may be a result of PBtA engine being a victim of " New Hotness Syndrome" (despite not actually being all that new by now). It is...

Honestly, at most PbtA games I scream "what the hell are you doing?!" and I'm famously a big fan of the Apocalypse World. It's very...

An interesting contrast is, I think, Monsterhearts. I'm willing to say that PbtA was a good general choice for Monsterhearts, and you'd...

Look at my further posts and see if you still read me as saying that.

It would depend on the specific game, but part of the intent is obviously to allow a variety of settings and/or styles to be played. At...

I'm not defending the semantic loading on this if you see my follow-up post.

Other than intentional design how would one describe designing from a vision and only including mechanics that contribute to the...

Thats really the center of the issue. Folks are coloring their definitions with their preferences. "Aimless", for example, might be how...

I don't disagree that's a pretty semantically loaded term when used too broadly; I do, however, think in at least some cases its not...

While I don't really disagree with your point, I think even at that point there were some differences in how they presented the role of...

Well, that's a different set of problems; you see it often with game systems that are D&D 5e based where you ask if there's a real...

Our old girl Belle had that down to a fine art, and what's worse, before she left it, she taught it to Max the dog who came in as a...

I normally agree with you @Maxperson...but I'm on the fence about this one. Or I don't understand it well enough yet. I know in my case...