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That's the point. MCDM tried to make class based metacurrencies (it's a worthy goal), failed and realised it (good for them) and ended up with a generic player-side metacurrency. But kept vestiges of the class based in the names and the 2vs1d3

No. It's because it's almost but not quite uniform. The difference between 1 and d6 would matter and is big enough to be memorable. But 2 vs 1d3 is irritating and trivial and just another thing to remember

Oh I 100% agree with you. This doesn't mean I haven't seen it argued. Normally with my pet hate of an RPG theory word "immersion" waiting in the wings. (Immersion in my view is a matter of player and group skill with the system and some systems are easier than others) Fair. But neither does it...

I am not nitpicking. I see there to be a genuinely important distinction between a single experience where you play pre-scripted character and are working through the life events of that person in specific and their relationships and a set of events that could happen to a theoretically almost...

Only Perkins retired. Crawford was let go. Which means Perkins almost certainly took "retirement" as an alternative to redundancy

Ugly choice: The orc swings their axe to stop your zig. You can either take thevorc's weapon damage or jump back, putting the lever on the far side of the orc.

For much the same reason the idea that hovercraft have incredibly low hydrodynamic drag is irrelevant to cruise ship design. Freeform LARP/FKR has things to offer (and you can see some of them in Vincent Baker's games including Apocalypse World games as Meguey Baker is a freeform LARPer) but...

Because they want a good story not a contrived one. This is why we have principles like "begin, and end with the fiction" and "make a move that follows". To use an analogy if you set up interesting basic situations then play things sincere even with a couple of caricatures in there (but mostly...

No one has made this complaint about Daggerheart that I am aware of.

In other words prefabricated parts. So no actual play experience. Just comparing the instruction manual for a set of power tools with the tone of a "decorate your house with IKEA" guide. Of course the power tool guide is going to be more didactic. That isn't a move or a complete sentence. A...

This is just one approach. I've seen (particularly round the 4e edition wars) people arguing explicitly and passionately in favour of process simulation over the actual outcomes. It's what the entire "disassociated mechanics" argument is based on. For that matter when it comes to results most...

Have you ever played DW or any other PbtA game? Or even read both DW and 5e? Because DW (for all I don't rate it as a good PbtA game) is a toolbox game and D&D is an instruction manual - with the core rules being multiple 300 page books of instructions. You know what makes a toolbox a toolbox...

I think this is a complaint about not having Rule Zero to either patch broken rules or break working ones

The main complaint I've heard is the new grapple rules (because it's always the grapple rules) make PC grapplers non-viable

This depends a lot on the type of weapon (do we need to bring back weapon type vs armour type)? Take a hit on your breastplate from an ogre with a club, for example, and you won't suffer broken ribs thanks to the breastplate - but the force is still there and you still get slammed into the...

I do not understand how you got from FKR is simply irrelevant to game design sims because they are aggressively anti-rules to "You have planted yourself solidly in the kriegspiel lair what simulation is concerned,". There are a whole lot of D&D 3.X fans who would disagree with you and were...

That depends - armour is heaviest in the most vital larts And rapiers had edges as well as points. Even if you stab through a breast plate you aren't going to cut as much as if you were able to make a draw cut on the way out.

Which is why most systems use an armour-as-damage-resistance model. One where punching someone on the breast plate does adjusted no damage - but hitting them with a Warhammer will still hurt even through the DR. Armour doesn't make you better at dodging

I think that 95% of D&D adventurers have the same career: adventurer. And we're dealing with a small start up here not a mega corp; everyone pitches in. Now the class system in Apocalypse World makes sense; your class is your role within the world so you are The Gang Boss or The Cult Leader or...