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I find this a rather bizarre rhetorical move: to quote some unidentified poster from another social media community and declare you agree with the general sentiment but not specifics (or tone) but then failing to identify your points of disagreement. Why not post your own statements that make...

Have you read this handy guide on these very boards? Appetite for Destruction: The Barbarian's Handbook (by lordduskblade) Just avoid options not from your listed resources.

First Score might be TPK?

I think this is the inevitable byproduct of sharing ideas in a public forum. There's an old adage that the world is divided into "lumpers" (those who primarily see the commonalities in things) and "splitters" (those who focus on the differences between things). Peoples' brains are just wired...

I don't think so. You're still making an MBA but at range. You aren't making an RBA.

Teleport archfey; heal heart. Finis.

Further to my post immediately above: none of what I think happened (in the scene, at the table) would qualify as GSP as this NPC that needs healing (the widowed rancher) and the status of NPC Rose (daughter whom I hope to invest with thematic relevance) will likely not affect the ensuing scene...

I agree that in that post I am using SP as a descriptor for moments of play rather than overall play agenda. This is at least part of the reason why I wish to disambiguate SP (which allows for analysis of granular moments, often but not always in relation to larger play agendas) from GSP (and...

Your brother is our nemesis?!?

Currently, I am playing a Paladin in Dungeon World. I have two healing actions available to me, Lay on Hands (which keys off CHA (+2 bonus) and the 7-9 complication transfers the damage or disease to me) and Cure Light Wounds via Cleric MC Advanced Move (which keys off WIS (+ 1 bonus due to...

Well, that's good, because I'm not discussing quality of storytelling either! I'm talking about deftly (or not) navigating the decision points involved between advocating for your character on the one hand and holding on loosely enough to not try to impose story but let it develop through the...

?!? Are you making an argument that skill is gauged by its resemblance to science over art?

Like @Manbearcat, I am startled by your input here (same goes for @AbdulAlhazred; we so very often seem to come down on the same side on these issues). On the one hand, you seem to be agreeing with the argument of disambiguating GSP from a broader, context-dependent umbrella of Skilled Play...

I don't have a ton of time, but I will examine two of the scenarios from your list and sketch out some relevant details and how they might relate to Skilled Play in Dungeon World. I'll select the first and last items bulletpointed. In the first scenario, Alastor the Paladin had negotiated a...

I think my way of answering your questions is that, for me, the most meaningful skillful play in DW is driving the fiction in ways to speak to immediate player (and PC, though not always overlapping) drives, while still holding on lightly enough to fictional drives beyond the Now to play to find...

Well, summoned as I am, answer I shall! I've been reading the recent SP threads with great interest though with no particular desire to weigh in directly, largely because I think the very term "skilled play" is fraught, elusive, and context dependent. Like so many of the discussions here, we...

What defines depravity for this mythos? Seems a rather important detail. Also, I assume you mean "altar" throughout? 😉

Do you not see how the two sentences I bolded above are in opposition? In the first you posit that players of a style differing from yours lack and are unconcerned with skilled play, that they want to shine without doing the work. That is criticism of such players. Then in the second, you say...

I liked Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone quite a bit but prefer the two I mentioned, so you may be in for a treat!

Out of curiosity, have you read J. Gregory Keyes's excellent The Waterborn and The Black God? Well-written fantasy by a trained anthropologist examining themes of animism vs. the rise of monotheism, wherein the river god represents the latter. Among my favorites!