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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9755678" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Any game based upon the rule system of Apocalypse World, not quite synonymous with AWE (Apocalpyse World Engine). PBTA is generally a wider term, but the narrower AWE isn't that much narrower.Key aspects (pun intended) of AWE:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Move Rolls: 2d6+asset vs ≤6, 7⋯9, 10+, for fail, complicated success, and full success, respectively.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">limited aspect list with low numbers</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">playbook character sheet, just answer a few questions for Char Gen</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Moves<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"To do it, do it!" To use the mechanical move, your character must do some recognizable variation of that move in the fiction.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There are a certain number of moves all characters get.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Each playbook has playbook's archetype-specific moves.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If it's not a move, it gets handled by "Say Yes"</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Say Yes, or Roll the Dice for the move. Noting that you only get to roll the dice if you did a move.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Narrate until you're done, you've triggered a move, or you do something that requires/triggers/depends upon action by another.</li> </ul>PBTA can be seen to include a wide range of games changing some part of that formula.</blockquote>

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