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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8317337" data-attributes="member: 82106">How don't you have 'general conflict resolution mechanics' in FitD? You have obviously a set of mechanics which model character capabilities. There are some things that need to be established, like the level of control of the situation in effect at the time. FitD/BitD, IMHO, doesn't really require that a 'scene' be a 'heist'. That is how things in BitD are flavored and oriented, but basically any dramatic situation can follow roughly the same model. You establish one or more clocks, the initial situation (is it controlled, desperate, whatever) and present the fictional situation. From there the mechanics are perfectly capable of working. It might be a bit unclear what the impact of some things are in terms of various tallies like relations with other groups or whatever, but if these are important they can be worked out pretty easily.Likewise with PbtA games. DW for instance, assuming a fantasy milieu appropriate to its character classes, is perfectly fine doing dungeon crawl, wilderness, intrigue, quests, military campaigns, building a holding, etc. I could very easily run a pirates campaign, for example, using DW. I wouldn't need to change a thing. AT MOST one might consider creating a playbook or two as a way to support some genre specific character types. Honestly, I think PbtA generally is EASILY capable of handling about 95% of what is normally done with 5e, including what shows up in other '5e based games'. There is really VERY little structure to PbtA, it is just principles/agenda/techniques/process, and then playbooks and generic moves. The only other parts to it are details of the character sheet for a given PbtA 'flavor' and any associated mechanics. So, for instance, DW has 6 ability scores, hit points, armor, equipment, bonds, alignment, and XP rules. Other PbtA flavors have similar stuff. Chances are you can co-opt a lot of your material from one or more of them, though honestly between DW, AW, and Uncharted Worlds, you have pretty solid systems for your more maintstream RPG genres (High Fantasy, Post-Apocalypse, and Asimovian-style Space Opera). I'm not familiar with others, but I am 100% certain there are various Supers games, several other flavors of Sci-Fi games, etc. They are all extremely similar in overall architecture! Certainly as similar as 5e-based games. I would say that PbtA is to 'indie games' what GURPS, d20, or BRP is to traditional games. And heck, if you don't like that FATE is an equally flexible toolkit (and there are others).I just don't think the idea that there is some sort of 'mainstream traditional' game architecture that is the 'generalized flexible way' that can do a version of anything, and then some 'other way' that is somehow more limited. That is utterly not supported by what is out there in the market today.</blockquote>

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