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About the "status quo" thing. I see the written passage from Baker more as a warning, than an advice: the system works effectively against a status quo scenario (unless maybe it is treated as a continuous, neverending Front). Once this Gm forced us to confront a gang of sort of humanoid...

Btw when Aw did "click", I had some of the most immersive and intense gameplay

Numidius' caveats ;) Once a gm, at the end of a difficult first session, introduced an enemy out of the blue, just to let us roll some dice. Not cooperating players and a condescendent gm... bad results Once I been proposing Aw to my vampire group. They pushed for having a zombie apocalypse...

Right. I believe with AW, Baker goes beyond those structures of reasoning, towards a freeflowing play and Gming. From his previous games, the pattern, the direction of his designing is visible and AW is the apex of that

A good example is The Hocus. The post apoc paranormal Priest head of a religious sect, community. Simply reading the options on the playbook (character sheet) about his/her followers, in form of multiple choises to ...choose from, the situation, the setting comes to life. The gm then asks for...

I humbly suggest to the op to read the fluff intro, of course, and jump straight to reading all the pc playbooks. Most of the setting is there. Also before starting to play, the players, of course, should read'em. They're very inspiring to find, come up, with situations around the pcs classes...

No "prewritten" locations. Although a lot of stuff is suggested in the examples of the text. In the First session of play characters are made, and also worldbuilding, but not a whole fantasy world, just the locations in which the players, or the party, live and start playing, a smallish...

Actually AW is intended to start "clicking" after half a dozen sessions, at best. The setting is heavily implied in the text. There are no locations, tho, since it is a post apoc setting. No status quo means no self sustained authority bigger than "the party" that cannot be subverted if They...

Daenerys dies, quietly, no one is shown to care, not even Greyworm. No witnesses. Still Jon is sent to the barrier, but the Watch is dimantled. The North is declared indipendent, still the Six realms have jurisdiction over the barrier, apparently, which is now serving as a rehab for broken hearted.

Sadras, yeah me too

Hi there! I wouldn't say the setting is the situation. Perhaps the situation is the (first) session, instead. By reading the manual and the playbooks the setting is mostly implied. Does it make sense?

I want to believe there was a deal to not publish until end of the show.

Some blame also the budget not enough for two dragons

Apparently the two showrunners don't like the number "3", so we never got a third Targaryen mounting the third dragon. Fair enough, but why not having Jon Snow ride Rhaegal above KL trying to stop the fury of Daenerys? That would have been cool, also causing havoc in the city more as a...

Is "Rise of Skywalker" suggesting Rey is a Skywalker, or am I missing something?

Maxperson, Cool! Glad to hear it. On Aegon, I think it is going to be Jon even in the books, 'cause I guess the other claimant is going to die horribly before the ending :D

Any chance Martin is going to publish the sixth book, now that the TV series is over?

Sadras Players that choose gear all by themselves before approaching a challenge, without a sort of linkage to how their characters would do it in their fictional world, looks pretty gamist to me.

Is meta-posting permitted, or is it considered like cheating? :D

estar Thanks for your advice, here's my thoughts in case you're interested. Lately I've been trying to go the opposite way, regarding RP in first person, so fostering a third person approach by players. The purpose is to take a step back from focusing on the Pc as Self, and broadening the...