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@mamba Working through those moves as a GM requires a creative process, reasoning about the fiction and making choices about how to...

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...

"Play to find out" in the way Vincent laid out obviously does not consider how a D&D GM prepares because it's not meant to describe D&D...

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...

'Play to find out which of two things happen', sounds great.

Well, note how immediately you have narrowed this from 'what happens' to 'how it resolves'. So a wide variety of possible outcomes and...

Is the GM also playing to find out, or do they already know?

That is completely false. A player in such a 'modern' game has at least the same type of agency to 'force an outcome' as a player in a...

Ok, so none of what you described is "play to find out what happens" What it means is "The GM ALSO has no idea what will occur next in...

In fairness, one of the true joys of playing B/X was being able to walk up to a soulless, dead-eyed elf and telling 'em, "You've got no...

But, this is inaccurate. The typical thing for a playbook is, you, the player, narrate trying to do whatever you want. If/when what you...

I don’t see anything you wrote here contradict anything I wrote…

not sure, they replace what used to be the class sure, but that doesn’t mean they are all that similar. The class defines abilities the...

And playbooks are just the modern incarnation of classes.

Indeed not every game tries to force players into a narrow theme - but literally every game there ever was or will be does have a set of...