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Yes. This is crucial to how they secure player agency. But that doesn't involve the player doing anything but play their PC. It just...

What, characters don't have hopes? They don't do things for reasons? Just a handful of posts upthread, you said that "We skedaddle so...

But isn't the player of BW doing the same thing? They've chosen to have certain traits called into question. Am I brave enough to face...

For each move in Duel of Wits, the player must do the thing - "Speaking the Part." I mean, insofar as any game rule can force you to do...

The implicit permission of a PBTA or FITD with its GM moves that say "when the players look to you for what happens next, do a thing"...

Who cares if they act on the meta-information? It's just information that's available to them. Let it be a hunch that the character has...

I’ve wanted to play this for years. Finally, today’s the day!

Do you not think that a DW GM surprises players with what’s around the corner, or over the hill, or down through the dungeon? Like, say...

And just like the posts here, both of you would think the other is missing the point.

I sure don't ignore it. Metagame is too important to the play experience.

Can we please speak only in terms of specific games or a specific arrangement of play? This is not the play loop of Apocalypse World...

You're right! Rather it speaks to my confidence that @Lanefan can come up with a 6 to 10 word description of an NPC on short notice! I...

I wish I could find some. When we talked in Forge terms, which don't reference agency at all, we also got bashed! I'm not hostile to the...

Yeah, absolutely. I’ve cited her repeatedly a couple hundred pages ago trying to understand how and why, because thats what she’s...

The solution to this (for me) is to add rules for horizontal growth. Downtime can help a lot with this.