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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7804383" data-attributes="member: 42582">I think this is an important (meta-)point: we (as RPGers posting about how RPGs are played) can separate our preferences, and our skills, from our analysis.I am hoping soon(-ish) to be able to GM Apocalypse World. It's a system that I've read a lot about; I've played a little bit of Dungeon World; Blades in the Dark has quite a bit of traction and discussion on these boards; I've read most but not all of the AW rulebook.I can see that AW is going to put demands on me that I'm not too used to, and that will push me in ways that are a bit unfamiliar. It has more of the &quot;naturalistic causality&quot; that [USER=16586]@Campbell[/USER] describes, though perhaps not as much as BitD (?). Maybe I'll enjoy the new thing, or maybe I'll find it doesn't work for me. Probably I'll drift it at least a little closer to my own preferences than Campbell would take it if he were GMing.But I find it sometimes hard to have productive conversations about GMing techniques and RPGing approaches more generally if all points of distinction, contrast and tension are elided over.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7804383, member: 42582"] I think this is an important (meta-)point: we (as RPGers posting about how RPGs are played) can separate our preferences, and our skills, from our analysis. I am hoping soon(-ish) to be able to GM Apocalypse World. It's a system that I've read a lot about; I've played a little bit of Dungeon World; Blades in the Dark has quite a bit of traction and discussion on these boards; I've read most but not all of the AW rulebook. I can see that AW is going to put demands on me that I'm not too used to, and that will push me in ways that are a bit unfamiliar. It has more of the "naturalistic causality" that [USER=16586]@Campbell[/USER] describes, though perhaps not as much as BitD (?). Maybe I'll enjoy the new thing, or maybe I'll find it doesn't work for me. Probably I'll drift it at least a little closer to my own preferences than Campbell would take it if he were GMing. But I find it sometimes hard to have productive conversations about GMing techniques and RPGing approaches more generally if all points of distinction, contrast and tension are elided over. [/QUOTE]

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