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Ecosystem, in the corporate gaming world, means the process of getting people addicted to your games. They are in the ecosystem because they keep coming back for nibbles and giving you money. The goal is a self-sustaining, rewards-based system that keeps them from "escaping" the ecosystem. It's...

The Moves are the game. Also, DW is just different than the mainstream of PbtA games. I freely admit I slice the pie a little different. The Big Model / GNS doesn't really admit that "narrative" is a thing. It doesn't even mention story as something involved in Exploration. "Developing a story"...

So the party will either fight the bone naga or not fight the bone naga, and they will leave the city and go some other place, and an NPC will talk to them. That sounds like a very far thing from knowing what will happen next.

She was at M$ before, so it could be gaming-related, which could be a conflict of interest. Also, sitting on multiple boards like a rich person is a little different than payout-hunting as part of a tight startup venture with plans for the original crew to cash out within a few years.

There is no specified order of operations, so you can do whatever is most beneficial. But you have to apply all the effects of a given feat or trait at each step.

My guess is she was seeing writing on the wall, and she decided to quit so if they came after her it would look retaliatory. Or she just got bad health news. Those are just the two possibilities that spring to my mind. Such short notice is rare. It makes sense if it's personal for her, if she...

Friction is not a fundamental force. It results from things like kinetic energy turning to heat, and from asperities (surface roughness). If those properties don't exist, your body doesn't convert kinetic energy to heat, and particles don't resist the movement of other particles. So you would...

Who's that lich, running around with you-ou?

I find it to be incomprehensible. I don't know what you think I said, or what I'm supposed to think you think I said. But maybe just respond to something I said.

Sure, if you have some way of defining the scope of one resolution.

The difference between playing pretend and an RPG is "the system decides." The system can be literally anything, but there is some formal method whereby potentially conflicting events in the narrative are resolved. It has to be something more formal than social clout; bullying is not a...

Well, I'm not saying that. Your hot air balloon/jet fighter comparison makes a lot of sense to me as a metaphor. What I am saying about PbtA games is that they admirably meet their aims, but not by being "narrative." They have some goals, but the most distinctive thing about a PbtA game is that...

If the party can either attack or not attack the bone naga ambassador, in what way are their actions constrained? The book gives you lots of options to use the material, but there is still no requirement that any particular thing happen. As I said before, if the party behavior is quite different...

Yes, obviously. If it helps I have a published Paizo credit, albeit not in an AP book per se. Continue?

What does "sticking to the module" mean?

The Braunstein is the concept underlying all RPGs. Just take a system, any system, that lets someone play a role, and tell them they can try to do anything they want.

Your body would separate into atoms.

What if they do? What if they don't even anticipate the direction they're "supposed" to go? What if they try rigorously to follow the "plot" and all the bright glowing question marks they find, but they break something? What if one of PCs absolutely won't do something the PCs are presumed to do...

At the risk of oversimplifying a long, complicated discussion that spans three different models of RPGs, and the post-model world we live in: "Narrativist" games are games that fulfill a specific kind of gaming experience Edwards thought was under-supported. His response was to envision a...

Really? How?