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I've been collecting and playing Warhammer since before the Vampire Counts-Tomb Kings split, when it was unified Undead faction. The Old World being set after the Vampire Wars and using that as justification to not include Vampire Counts (as well as several other factions) absolutely killed any...

I'm not sure I'd want it using the same as Soulbound, specifically, but I'd certainly prefer a d6 dice pool system where one plays as units from the tabletop, in the same vein as Soulbound. Seems like a no brainer as a way to bridge the RPG and the wargame.

Enabling a given stance doesn't mean requiring that stance or precluding others.

In the same way an actor embodies a character even when they've been provided material by the writer or director. The actor (GM) incorporates their own ideas with what's been provided by the writer/director (player). (I know it's odd to see the comparison that way around when it's typically...

I don't believe I specified where I drew the line, but rather noted that others in this thread probably draw the line elsewhere from Harper. Not truly. My only experience with AW specifically is an actual play session I watched years ago run by Baker, involving Harper (and others), which...

Well, we're not off to a great start. I have literally never used the word "owns", except to tell you I haven't used the word, and this particular instance goes beyond misrepresenting my words into outright gaslighting. I refer you to post 15,098: This consistent factual misrepresentation when...

In real life, sometimes the only consequence is that you failed to do the thing. For example, say you have an interview for a potential new job that pays better than your current one. You flub it and you don't get the job. Nothing about your living situation materially changed. Now, if your...

You know, I don't think this is actually true of D&D5e. I think the problem stems from the fact that the results are kinda wishy washy and left to individual GMs as part of the whole "rulings, not rules" thing, which allows for one group to approach it that way, while another adopts...

Bolded for emphasis. See, this is how I understood it, though I suspect there's a difference of perspective at play. So, for example, I've talked previously about how in V:TM V5 the players come up with Chronicle Tenets and character Convictions, which are intended to signify to the GM the sort...

I simply wanted to make clear I don't have access to the primary source, and found one secondary source (Harper) conflicted, in my view, with another secondary source (you). Thanks for quoting the book. The MC is the one portraying the environment, the NPCs, etc. How is that not embodying the...

I think this is a misunderstanding of fail forward. The GM does not have to "introduce something that changes what the entire scene is about". It can re-contextualise the scene, but it can also simply make the current situation worse/more dangerous while still maintaining the players'...

So, I'd agree that the implication is that the runes always represented the map - whether one actually does or even can accept that, I think comes down to perspective - but I don't think the objection some have is strictly "the player getting a chance to say what some detail is". If we stick...

The setting being predefined vs established ad hoc seems besides the point. The GM is still in control of all the things the GM is typically in control of in a trad game, right? @pemerton seems to consider that GM-driven/centred in one game, but player-driven in another. I'm trying to reconcile...

I'm not sure anyone disagrees with this in principle. I certainly don't. Yes, and this is precisely what I aim for with my V:TM sandbox - a focus on the unlife of the PCs (and their goals/ambitions) within the context of a vampire society. I will come back to this once I've formalised my...

Thank you, I genuinely appreciate the sentiment.

But there is a fictional environment in which the characters - PC and NPCs alike - inhabit, even if it's a undefined post-apocalyptic wasteland. That's a setting. Whether it has an elaborate, predefined history and geography like Forgotten Realms; a lightly sketched out one like BitD; is created...

I came to the same conclusion and am increasingly convinced that I will need curate a group of like-minded strangers to get the level of satisfaction I want.

I don't have Apocalypse World to check directly myself, but per John Harper (from the crossing the line article): This is a pretty trad delineation, and - unless you're an adherent of the Humpty Dumpty school of language - seems to conflict with your view.

It seems the discrepancy could resolved for you if the runes remained a map (or way out, or whatever), even on a failure, but something else happened instead, like they were magically booby-trapped or something? But I'm not sure if such a thing would occur in @pemerton's game.

Indeed, one of the common complaints about BitD is that a score can turn into a comedy of errors if a GM doesn't exercise such discipline (combined with the earlier observations about maintaining character competence).