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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 7581987" data-attributes="member: 6696971">This thread isn't about it, and if you want to make a thread about it I'll participate, but how about a quick breakdown of what can go wrong when running a Powered By the Apocalypse game?  Dungeon World since its been discussed?* Its difficult to improvise.* Its difficult to improvise while simultaneously managing the cognitive burden of integrating specific and differentiated character themes.* GM's who don't have the exposure of giving up authority or having their authority constrained by system will find that difficult; difficult to do at all and difficult to trust that the process will produce a lively and satisfying play experience.* Its difficult to consistently come up with interesting complications that provoke compelling decision-points which arise from failure and partial success...and its made especially so if your GMing mental framework has been conditioned exclusively around a naturalistic, causal logic framework.* Conditioning players to assume authority and understand the nature and empowerment of the play conversation (if those players are used to traditional authority structures) can be difficult.* It can be difficult to be patient with yourself, take a moment to take a breath and consider a move choice your about to make (or not make), when pacing of play is so important.* On certain specific, rare corner cases the Soft > Hard move structure can be sticky to navigate ("was I transparent enough and was my communication clear with respect to me prior Soft Move and the implications of the impending doom of a Hard move?"  Or "does this 6- truly warrant a Soft move or am I just being too meek?").* Asking the right questions and/or drawing interesting answers from the players can sometimes be difficult.  Integrating them to introduce content that is thematically interesting and relevant can be difficult.* These games require that all participants bring their creative energy to bear and engage every session.  There are lots of TTRPG players who prefer a passive experience and this can just be too much for them.[HR][/HR]These games, and games like them, have a particular (and likely peculiar to some people) cognitive load to them.  They can go wrong at first...until they go right.  Or a GM who is looking for a particular experience may find that the experience of GMing them is anathema to what they enjoy about running games.</blockquote>

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