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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...

Make you fat.

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...

The GM does the framing but must do so in regard to established player character beliefs (and with the sole purpose to challenge those beliefs). This is explicit in the text. The game both establishes the GM's authority over scene framing and constrains it to addressing the enumerated belief...

In my experience most longer running characters in Blades will end up taking substantial part of their move sets from other playbooks. My first long running character was a Hound (Imperial sniper) that sort of become more of a Slide (from brokering a lot of deals) as the game went on. My other...

This might just be a result of the play priorities of the groups I have run and played with in the past, but my experience with games where characters can degrade as a result of loss conditions (Vampire - The Requiem, Legend of the Five Rings Fifth Edition, The Doomed Playbook in Masks...

My biggest concern personally is losing the spirit of the game as constituted. What I like about the game I'm seeing is that it appears to be gloriously unafraid of its players. From the unstructured nature to combat, to spells/abilities with minimal caveats and not a lot of strong rationing, to...

I mean when I use terms like scene framing, fronts, GM Moves, kickers, etc. I am not like translating my natural thoughts into jargon. That vocabulary is natural to me. My posts almost always stream of consciousness, thoughts broadcast directly onto the virtual page. Soft move as a term of art...

For part of what GMs do. Its utility as a term of art is then to enable us to have discussions about how in a given game or style of play a GM should go about setting a scene, what concerns they should have, what constraints they should have, etc. In part by breaking up "what GMs normally do"...

It's also not gaining very much competency outside of combat compared to a build that focuses on both. The vast majority of your competency outside of combat is going to come from two spends per tier (your first character trait spend and the improve two experiences spend). Every other spend (and...

Being interested and engaged when the focus is on another player character does not require professional acting skills. It requires empathy and curiosity. Sure, system design can help. I think you can address in other ways though than locking things down to explicit turn sequences. For...