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The GM controls the NPCs and thus controls how often and how well they can tap into the psychic maelstrom. The PCs control their character and thus are limited in how often and well they can tap into it by their choice of moves and the whims of the dice.

So you won't play unless you have massive amounts of control. Gotcha.

No. The problem with 3e is that it meant that you always needed something bigger, such as higher-level opponents and obstacles with higher DCs. This is not only a bit silly (have you seen some of those high-CR monsters?), but it also prevents a lot fantasy tropes--you can't have, for instance...

According to the book, the maelstrom is always trying to get into people's heads--that's why there's a roll to use it, because using it is dangerous, and exposure to it can cause "Ψ-harm," and the GM is supposed to make it an actual, omnipresent threat, not just the result of a bad roll. Also...

That would depend entirely on the game in question, of course. There are numerous games where the players get to make the world, or at least major chunks of it. There are numerous groups that build the world together for the GM to run in. But I would say that putting something down to be "fun...

That's pretty much how countdowns work in Monster of the Week. Here's one from the Tome of Mysteries: They both would count as situations. Well, the latter--stuff to actively impose on them--might actually count as a hard move, depending on how involved it is.

This is incorrect. The MC controls the psychic maelstrom. What form it takes, how and where (and if) it moves. How strong it is. How common it is for people to be able to tap into it. The player controls their PC's personal experience with it. They control their PC's senses, not the maelstrom...

It's been pointed out to you multiple times that this was a single example that happens to be pretty bad. So why do you keep bringing it up?

Of course, you cut off the rest of my text here. And note that the text is saying that they can be used live, not that they were designed to be used live. Well, if you don't care about logic, continuity, physics, dungeon ecology, etc., then there's no need. Am I? Show me where I said that...

While I don't play DW, I do play games that have similar moves. Anyway, according to the SRD, the player asks the GM either one or three questions from the following list: What happened here recently? What is about to happen? What should I be on the lookout for? What here is useful or valuable...

Hey, I posted about it once. It's other people who decided to keep it up.

I was speaking very specifically about what a specific person said about a specific game, and how pemerton seems to have misunderstood what he means, and pemerton responded by talking about that game. Also, I've yet to see a PbtA game that says that the GM shouldn't prep...

For me, I'd probably pick a cluster of related lands, whether geographically (using older RL) or thematically (using newer), and then just stick to that area in-game.

Right. But the "correct" (for a given definition of correct, when it comes to pronunciation) of H is aitch. Ergo aitch-pee. (Hotel whould be hoh-tel, not oh-tel.) At least in "standard" American English. YMMV outside of that. Anyway. It bugs me. Chalk it up to my weird neurodivergent obsession...

I honestly can't tell if you're being pedantic about phrasing here or my use of the word GM instead of MC. Maybe you're unaware of the fact that there are PbtA games out there that don't use the word MC. Maybe you forgot that you quoted the line in question and aren't aware that "situation"...

It doesn't matter what people say. The text says "a HP." Well, I don't think it's drifted far enough yet to justify not using it in something that isn't casual.

No, I'm stating a pretty well known part of writing. You can't have a piece be all something all the time. To quote Asimov, "you can't build a symphony on just one note." He was talking about dystopias/utopias there, but it makes sense for all genres. If something is 100% something, it becomes...

While maybe not necessary, an undead-type ancestry and some new or expanded monsters would be useful. The main monster types in Ravenloft--going by the Van Richten Guides--are ghosts, vampires, liches, mummies/ancient dead, werebeasts, (shadow) fey, hags, golems/constructs, and lesser undead...

Maybe something like you only get one downtime move if you don't have Supply. Or if you want to get mathy for it, you one move for a number of long rests equal to your Tier, then no moves after that; at higher Tiers, you're better at scavenging just enough stuff to count as starvation rations...