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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 9000161" data-attributes="member: 82106">Precisely. When I run Dungeon World, its not like there's a move for every possible situation, but there's always the simple dialog of the GM and the players describing what they do and what happens, and what happens next, etc. Pretty soon we'll land on 'Defy Danger' almost for sure! It isn't even meaningful to say what situations Dungeon World's rules don't 'cover' at some level. With 5e it is perfectly possible.Here's an example, the Dwarf decides to ski down the mountain. Neither DW nor 5e has any explicit skiing rules, right? Nothing! Obviously we fall back on DD (and maybe DR, etc.) along with perhaps uses of equipment or something in DW. In 5e we are going to rely on ability checks (and thus probably proficiencies with skills and maybe tools) with equipment also maybe playing a factor. So far so good!Now, in neither game do we have an absolutely clear mandate as far as granularity, stakes, consequences, etc. These factors are open in each system. That is to say one DD check could get the dwarf all the way down the mountain with or without issues, or not. Likewise 5e (bog standard at least) could have one Athletics check do the same thing, though you would need some optional rule to work in the 'with our without issues'. So, DW seems a bit ahead here, but not to any deeply meaningful degree, and the partial success rule for 5e is not exactly obscure. But I do feel that DW handles things in a bit more sophisticated way in terms of being geared up to deal out complications and such! We have a really natural way to create tension and almost create the equivalent of a subsystem. The dwarf player rolls an 8, one ski flies off! Now, think about how D&D works, the 5e PC is presumably on some sort of map, there's other rules out there that we may ignore, but now if the 5e dwarf's ski flies off, we're in more of a tactical/overland/travel kind of place. In DW I really don't have to go there, I can just let the dwarf player make up some solution (I snowboard the rest of the way down!) and that's very natural. Its true, I could start playing 5e closer to this sort of style. Now FOR ME, because I have done this for 45+ years, none of this is going to matter much, but I think the DW version is going to work better 'out of the box' as it requires much less thinking about how to deploy the rules, you just do it.</blockquote>

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