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I'm not sure I understand. 25% chance of success is not "reliably succeed more often than not"??? Typical DCs table in 5E DMG states that DC 15 is a "moderate" difficulty, with DC 10 being easy, which means that a person with only 10 in a given stat has only a 25% chance at succeeding at a...

Overall, I think stats that describe what the character can bring themselves to do or stop themselves from doing are ultimately both more important and more immediately useful than stats describing their ability to persuade or solve riddles.

Or take average DC of 15 as a baseline. Yeah, an "average" person has only 25% chance of a successful negotiation! That said, this isn't an issue with stats themselves, that's an issue of the very specific way D&D stats work that is not universal to all games that have social and mental stats.

Aside from everything else, now I wanna run or play a game about the last mage in a dying world, that sounds like a blast ...at least as long as I'm not the one playing the last mage

I posted this in other threads more than once, but still: There's an obscure Russian RPG called УМЕР МУЖИК (MUJIK IS DEAD for you, westerners). It's free and short, go read it. Then, play it. In short, it's brilliant. In long, it's weird an innovative. From time to time I think "okay, I've...

Faction relationship rules are kind of that? Factions that have -3 with you will go out of their way to screw you, and showing up for your score is one of the most obvious way they can do that. The same goes for PC's personal enemies.

I'm not Manbearcat, but in games I've ran or played that were closely following the rules, they kinda were and weren't? Depending on the definition of a "dynamic situation". In the last Scum&Villainy (BitD in space, I guess???) game I participated in, there were plenty of situations where a...

It is a choice of how to run it. I run Blades that way too as a basically series of one-shots. I don't think it's the intended way for it to be run, though, given how a starting situation presented in the book is "Crows, the biggest gang in the area just had a very suspicious change of...

While I understand how it might be uncomfortable, neither AW nor MH really intend for players to ERP at the table, as both Vincent and Avery said that they normally just fade to black. Honestly, speaking as an ERP connoisseur, they are pretty clunky and aren't exactly suited for actual ERP.

There's an obscure Russian RPG called УМЕР МУЖИК (MUJIK IS DEAD for you, westerners). It's free and short, go read it. Then, play it. In short, it's brilliant. In long, it's weird an innovative. From time to time I think "okay, I've seen everything there is in TTRPGs", but every time something...

Well, I was invited to a game of mundane personal horror without katana trenchcoats, and it was a pregen anyway, so... Yeah, I'm pretty sure?

I only played Mausritter and enjoyed it a lot. I don't know if it's a common feature of the family or a thing unique to Mausritter, but I adored inventory/health management, I think it's very neat and creates this whole "inventory anxiety" that I ultimately want from an encumbrance mechanic

This also reminded me of a joke: A ship is sailing though the sea, when a crewmate runs to the captain: — Captain! Captain! Pirates! Two big ships! They are going for a boarding attack! Captain with a stoic face says: — Bring me my red shirt. Crewmate does as he is told, and captain in his red...

I'd say red. Yeah, red sounds good.

While I understand the sentiment, I honestly did not have such experience, or, at least, didn't perceive it that way. I, as a player, actually don't mind linear GM-curated adventures, at least, as long as I know where the damn rails are. I don't mind expressing agency through little silly...

Because of both GM and player moves being geared towards propelling the process of play towards, well, interesting things, more or less regardless of what you actually do. This is not by any means unique to PbtA, mind you, there are plenty of games that provide the same, uhm, safety net? I...

RE: "scene framing and other jargon" Honestly, in my experience, the greatest strength of AW and her offspring is that I can just... play the damn game. Do what I think my character would do, react the way I think my character would react, without worrying where it will lead me and be more or...

And also @AbdulAlhazred and @Crimson Longinus , I guess. Counter-intuitive thing about PbtA that many, including many fans of PbtA, don't understand is that rules takes precedence over fiction. Dungeon World with its "fiction first" idiocy didn't help either. In World of Darkness, GURPS, Dark...

1) Yes, any move GM likes, but a move must be made. "OK, door is now open, nothing else of note happens" isn't on the table 2) Yes, any move GM likes 3) No, if a move is triggered, it's rules take effect (that's what "if you do it, you do it" means) This is one of the reasons I dislike Dungeon...