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Warhammer - The Old World Roleplaying Game should fit the bill. The game uses an opposed roll (Attack or Shoot versus either Defense or Athletics). If the attacker wins compare damage (which is a static value modified successes) to Resilience (Toughness + Armor). If damage beats Resilience, you...

In general, I'm a firm believer in just talking about what the expectations for the game you will be running. Meta-analysis of its place in the broader hobby is not necessary or helpful.

There is no real Narrativism (premise-forward play) in traditional roleplaying games, including in games like Pendragon and Vampire that some of us saw as failing to live up to their premise despite them being thoroughly genre emulation / high concept sim. A lot of the flawed incoherent game...

The actual process behind it matters. Why are they seperating them? What agenda are they pursuing?

Even the creative solution used as an example was the application of something on the player's character sheet...

Because I don't want to focus on the tactical and want our focus attention on these moral flashpoints. I also just do not want to spend 2 hours and 45 minutes in a 3-hour session to get to part I care about or to have players try to plan a way around those moral decisions. I really do not want...

They just give up the XP

I would say that there is significant crossover in the way some people run D&D (mostly younger gamers I've come across) and Monster of the Week play. But that's fairly distinct from more classic approaches to D&D and running Apocalypse World as directed. There really isn't a single form of...

Moving on from there being a conventional wisdom of what roleplaying games are and can be is an improvement from my perspective. Not marginalizing those who have tastes outside the mainstream is an improvement. Not the specific games and not the specific playstyles, but a more diverse hobby is a...

I disagree. They're very different from what a sandbox GM is doing in trad games.

At bare minimum in order to get to the point where we can even roll the dice we need to establish the following: fictional positioning that justifies the aim the character is pursuing telegraphing possible complications/consequences for the roll possible downstream implications for other player...

So, there are basically 4 places we could block any given action in a roleplaying game: Intent: a character wants to do something Initiation: a character attempts to do something Execution: a character succeeds or fails at their attempt Effect: a character affects the game world through their...

@RenleyRenfield is welcome to correct me, but I'm fairly sure he meant gumshoe with a little g. Not the Gumshoe system.

I think I could fairly easily run a mystery scenario in Daggerheart. Heck adopting some bits from Brindlewood Bay or Apocalypse Keys would be fairly easy. If you mean straight up run Call of Cthulhu module type mystery probably not, but that's not a genre. That's a playstyle.

There is a shocking lack of police procedural games in roleplaying given how popular mysteries are as adventures.

Into The Odd, Mork Borg or Apocalypse World. CBR + PNK looks like it might get up there.

Wanting sole authorship of the character you play's inner world, emotions and the like is fine preference to have. So is a shared authorship model where what we do affects and impacts who our characters are. Is it more potentially fraught in some ways? In some ways yes, but less fraught in...

Here you go. One thing I think is helpful is to just treat the heading like the name of the thing. What it says underneath each heading is what really matters.

Yes. Standards for players have always been front and center for Narrativist play. Stylistically it only works with players and GMs are in alignment. Monsterheart's Agenda section is addressed first to the players. Blades has a section on Player Best Practices. Daggerheart sets out a list of...

This is one of those areas where we need to be mindful of the not pulling isolated text out of the context of the game. Apocalypse World is a game where the GM is providing active adversity pretty much every moment of play. They are not neutral arbiters of setting - they are actively messing...