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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Campbell" data-source="post: 8166778" data-attributes="member: 16586">I have never really liked the comparison of games like Sorcerer and Apocalypse World to collaborative storytelling largely because the impression I get from that is players and GM colluding together and making decisions based on what they think will result in the best story. I have seen some groups do this in Fate as well as some mainstream RPGs (Vampire and Fifth Edition). I am no fan of this sort of play although Fate does an admirable job of enabling it.That's about as far from my experience of Apocalypse World as you could be. As a player I'm just like advocating for my character in the same way I would in any other roleplaying game. There's some collaboration in setting design, but not like in the moment of play. Rather the focus is on playing the character in moments of stress and finding out who they really are when push comes to shove. It's an exploration of the inner world rather than the outer.The GM's role is quite different, but again not really about telling stories. Rather their job is to design scenarios that test the character and get to their truth.If anything I guess we could call it a storyfinding rather than storytelling game, but my preferred nomenclature these days is character exploration game as juxtaposed against setting or world exploration game.</blockquote>