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Here's another example from cards: One way to lose a hand of bridge or five hundred is to get unlucky in the deal. If I'm dealt four...

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...

Principles (at least in Apocalypse World) not advice or suggestions. They are instructions. The game says, "Always say what your...

Systems are just compilations of mechanics. Advice crosses the line into mechanics anywhere that "should" or "best practice" in a...

So, mechanics. When I use the word I mean rules and systems, but some people (and I don't just mean here), extend the definition to...

Here I think that there are multiple groups who call themselves Trad RPGers. Continuing or Modern Trad RPGers who know what they like...

This is the "vanilla narrativist" hypothesis. I am (or at least have been) an instance of the type, as I've often posted about including...

It depends where you count the bounds of "Traditional" play. I'd argue (and have argued) that The Forge and Narrativism were an attempt...

To the bolded: those are mechanics IMO, only at a top level rather than a specific rules level.

This is why, upthread, I posted that "I find the use of "PbtA" as if it were an informative label pretty hopeless too. . . . I don't...

One reason I don't personally use the term "trad" is because the actual table play between a linear adventure using milestone leveling...

@Fenris-77 just want to say I appreciate your thoughtful contributions, especially since I know you’re adding in an appreciation for the...

What I mean is that, regardless of how they do it, mechanics that all shift authorial control from the GM to the players to some degree...

Yeah. To your point, I think just broadly tarring PbtA games and Storypath (the system used in all the recent Onyx Path games) as...