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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8199219" data-attributes="member: 16814">I'm not sure I agree with this, especially with the number of people that fail to grasp how a number of games function when reading them.  Usually this is due to bringing prior experience forward, and expecting the new game to operate largely as a previously learned game does.  This is fine when moving among the game systems that are similar to D&D -- ones that feature GM as the primary, if not sole, author of world fiction and adjudication of said world.  The number of people that have trouble moving from a D&D-like experience in games to something like the PbtA games is markedly high -- because they're not actually reading the rulebooks to learn to play but assuming they know how to RPG and this is just a new way.  Hence the large amount of confusion on how certain mechanics can possibly work.I'm speaking from experience, here -- my first attempt to move away from the D&D sphere into Burning Wheel was a complete disaster of failure to understand how the game even worked, despite the rulebook being pretty clear on how it does work.  I kept trying to fit that into my then understanding of how RPGs worked, and it didn't fit.  I can mostly learn a new game from a rulebook now, though, because I make sure to leave everything else at the front cover.</blockquote>