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(1) of those is a review that actually talks about running through the entire campaign. Most of those are common Amazon reviews, one is...

It's important, contextually, that "play to find out what happens" is in the MC Playbook. That being said I think Monsterhearts' "Keep...

Absolutely, which is why I started that post with “tastes vary, of course.” That’s not my intent. I was speaking of my personal...

Tastes vary of course, but in my experience, disengaged players prefer railroads, because it requires minimal effort from them. Engaged...

Oh yeah, it's been a fight to get it to have both a stream that runs through AND a road that enters and leaves, AND some other details!

Playing around with Gemini out of curiosity. It has a very specific house-style it thinks of as a "D&D town map" that has big computer...

Moderate prep, keeping track of the factions and stuff is going to take some setup. Individual locations are laid out pretty well to...

If your player characters have strong innate goals and objectives, you place situations around them with no expectation of how they play...

The emphasis is on 'play to find out' and who is doing the finding out - it should also include the GM. If you are a player in...

Well, if the players are sitting down to play an Adventure Path I hope they're excited to engage with that! But I think it's generally...

I think this is absolutely one part, yes. So "play to find out" contrasts with Adventure Paths, metaplot, etc. I think the other part...

The first RPG I know of to use the phrase "play to find out" is Apocalypse World. It appears on pp 108-9 of the rulebook: AGENDA • Make...

The core of the ideas is that you don't have like, a chain of plot and events set out. You don't have "the PCs must do A, and then at...