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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...

Explicitly, like, "here's what to do when the action isn't covered by a player move"? It doesn't. Doesn't need to either. There is a general rule: when the player looks at GM* to see what happens next, GM makes a GM move. Player moves are exceptions to this general rule, when the action PC...

In almost any RPG game you wait for what the GM will say to your action. That's kinda how roleplaying games work. "Player looks at you" has no relation whatsoever to player moves. It's a trigger for a GM move, which I will touch on later. Player moves are rules on how to handle a specific...

1-3 is both failure and a consequence. Position is what happens on a failure, Effect is what happens on a success. On 6 you get your effect with no consequences from position, on 5/6 you get both, on 1-3 you only get a consequence. Most (if not all?) of the player-facing rules are available on...

re: defined power lists My Swords under the Sun has that and it works, but it's generally a pretty bad game all around, especially English version.

While I encountered this uhm malicious/indifferent approach exactly once and the guy was a walking red flag anyway, I've seen more than enough times GM latching on a detail player did not intend and leaving the Actual Hook in the dust, because of misinterpretation, misunderstanding or player...

So, like: GM decides that there is a Dark Lord who can only be stopped with great magical artifacts. She knows that one of the PCs, idk, survived some kind of disaster but doesn't remember much. So GM decides that one of the magical artifacts is his heart that was implanted into him to save his...

Cortex is a different beast, I think. There it's a) easier to adjust difficulty b) harder to bypass difficulty adjustment. Approaches, in my opinion, just don't really mesh with how Fate works, but yeah I love them outside of Fate. In my fates+blades hybrid I use approaches, in the second best...

Wrt to neotrad design: the thing I'm not sure I understand is where neo stops and trad begins. Is Blades in the Dark with its character-driven narrative and plentiful fiddly bits a neotrad game? Yes? No? What if it had a dedicated combat subsystem? Yes? No? I'm not stupid. I understand that...

I think there is a meaningful description between "story as a natural byproduct of things happening in a sequential order" and "story as an interesting narrative that can stand on its own merits, separate from the process of play". Because, well, not only game mechanics inherently tell stories...

I can! It is a bad game that is chock full of just completely baffling decisions. Playbooks are weird, bonds are an asinine mechanic that works infinitely worse than Hx, but the most obvious: why the hell there is randomized damage in a game that already has a mechanic for partial successes...

None of which even remotely resemble how they work or ever worked in D&D.

Even if you do use a VTT for a PbtA game, there's a decent chance you will end up in "general" or "other" or whatever statistic because the only thing you need is, well, a virtual table to drop pictures onto.

Hit points, sure. Wouldn't say it's entirely correct to attribute them to D&D, though. Classes are far from being ubiquitous in videogames, especially RPGs where a la carte menu of options is the norm. Even if a game even features a word "class", chances are, it means something entirely...

This is splitting hairs. If I was reading a novel or watching a film or listening to a radio play and there was a character who had a dramatic moment where they abandoned their faith and in the next scene they were throwing bolts of divine energy I'd be scratching my head and considering picking...

This is exactly what I consider an unwieldy workaround. I mean, "I rejected the power of the god because the gods are evil and uncaring for the struggles of mortals, but oh, I will continue using spells anyway" even sounds weird. "...but hey, I found a new god to pray to! Overnight!" isn't...