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I tend to view neotrad play as play that primarily either reinforces the players' conceptions of their characters and/or puts a strong focus on the individual stories of each character in a GM directed fashion. The games I think most encourage this sort of play are Legend of the Five Rings...

A full 3 out of 6 Monsterhearts basic moves (Keep Your Cool, Lash Out Physically and Run Away) cover what you would need for action scenes pretty well (and I think cover the sort of dynamics you generally see when facing antagonists in its source material). I do think there's room for peripheral...

I'd have to know more about what you mean. We likely have very different reads on Monsterhearts. Like Monsterhearts (from my vantage point) is not really all that much about being a monster except in the way that all teenagers can be monsters. It's much more a game about messy teen romance and...

What I would say is that you can play a game featuring emotional teenage superheroes in Mutants and Masterminds, but still will not be Masks. One is not like a replacement for the other. The core loops of play, the things the mechanics reinforce, the focus on the characters' sense of identity...

I think the idea that game X is bespoke whole game Y is more general relies on a flawed conceit - that the sole purpose of a roleplaying games rules is only to represent a type of fiction well. In that view a Mutants and Masterminds game where you follow the adventures of a young superhero team...

I was comparing the special abilities available to each splat given we're also talking about special abilities here. Here's an Embed from Demon - The Descent Here's a Discipline power from Vampire - The Requiem: Also, not that it particularly matters, but Dramatic Failures happen when you...

Say we followed the advice that is being offered here. Does anyone think that you could have a meaningful dialogue wherein every time someone wanted to refer to a soft move they had to instead say a telegraphed threat or danger presented to the player characters that the GM presents to elicit...

I'm not going to dig into the details of 5e (it's a game I'm willing to play but not run) but in the trad games I have played and ran the assumption that our groups have taken it's in the GM's prerogative to make rulings about what a character does and does not know about the setting and that...

Basically, we're just talking about special ability writeups that are going to look pretty similar to Chronicles of Darkness (Critical Success, Success, Failure, Dramatic Failure), Pathfinder Second Edition (Critical Success, Success, Failure and Critical Failure) or Powered by the Apocalypse...

You are attributing malice to what was an expression of an opinion here. My personal experience is that games like Deadlands, Shadowrun, D&D and even sometimes L5R/Exalted/Vampire are pretty much run and played in almost the same way. Just like games like Brindlewood Bay, The Between and...

How would you propose we go about talking about these conceptually complex and novel approaches then? Don't talk about them is not really a suitable answer.

I think this critique belies a certain level of executive function that is like not universal. Stuff like faction clocks, relationship maps, fronts and Apocalypse World threats are very useful to me to help organize and reason about offscreen things. When I run other sorts of games I often lean...

Sure, but at that point you are saying you are not interested in the conversation rather than making a critique about the best way to bring a given game's play model forward. You're basically saying don't say GM Move yet not providing an alternative framing to talk about the concepts involved...

Sure. Scope of comparison is a thing. In the scope of area control games Battle For Rokugan and Twilight Imperium vary significantly. In the scope of board games in total they play remarkably similarly.

My experience is that the core gameplay of many of these games does not significantly vary. Different sorts of fiction, but at the end of the day we are dealing with teams of specialists going on adventures presented to them by the GM. In the grand scheme of things playing Shadowrun, Legend of...

Would you have interest at all in learning a game that requires you to learn how to run roleplaying games in a different way than you are used to or that are structured differently than you are used to? Do you actually want to learn a new game or just play basically the same game with minor...

We have gotten into this before. Stuff like kickers/fronts/GM Moves are conceptually complex enough that you do not want to have to reexplain what they are in everyday language every time you need to talk about them, particularly given the impulse some have treat them like things that have some...

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What was said is that the sort of fiction where characters immediately recognize the purpose of the runic circle is not inherently more realistic than one where they do not. That the choice between these sorts of fictions is one of personal aesthetics rather than one built on realism or...

@Crimson Longinus There's a very large difference between content that makes character specific motivations, history and themes central to play and using these things to motivate a player to engage with adventures that might have a brief taste of these things but really asks them to take on the...