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While they do point out the list of games that serve as an inspiration is not 100%, Masks&City of Mist are called out in there as well...

The vast majority of the millions of people who have taken D&D up in the past ten years have probably never read another rpg. I'll put...

I mean the core expectation is GM crafted narrative arcs! It’s very much written to be “situation not plot” story play. You can easily...

It's not necessarily a problem though, because you don't have to instantly snap to an entirely new paradigm like you really do kind of...

A GM move is everything you do as a GM. I think there’s also a bit of a split how you handle Fear generation explicitly for...

I'm not really seeing a meaningful inconsistency. But maybe I'm being dim? It does happen! But those aren't in opposition to each...

And you can really do them all if you are playing DH because it really is aiming to be all of them at once.

It's a really common trap for people to fall into to think it's necessary to pick a lane; that liking a new type of game means you also...

Yeah the metacurrency stuff can be enough (tick a stress, take disadvantage forward to follow up, whatever); and then bringing in clocks...

It's weird because there are some people worried about getting exhausted by having to come up with a innovative description of rolls...

The indie scene in general is excellent about calling out inspirations both media and game wise. It’s wonderful to see what inspires...

Lots of PBtAs and FitDs credit their inspirational games.

I was actually impressed by that as I've never seen any tRPG ever credit another for any inspiration or even set of ideas taking whole...

There’s a long discussion on 154+ about using fear, and narrative stuff under Making Moves on 149 with explicit ideas on “how to choose...

Page 296 talks a little bit about how to reflavor magic as tech, but it doesn't actually discuss how that might impact the narrative...