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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8292150" data-attributes="member: 82106">I'm not sure how DW enforces that. I guess it does to the same extent any game enforces any similar 'table behavior' which is not codified. That is, if the GM asks a player a question, that invites the player to inject some sort of fiction, but the constraints on what that fiction is are not part of the rules. They aren't even spelled out very clearly in the agenda/principles.So, if you are GMing a DW game and in session zero you ask me "where is your character from?" and I respond, "the Starship Enterprise", what is going on here? Well, perhaps there's an unspoken 'rule' that DW is a fantasy genre game. Certainly that answer won't get me a phaser. It might get me booted from the table, or OTOH it might be a signal that the other players take up to 'go gonzo' with the setting and introduce some kind of cross-genre element to play. It would heavily depend on the table. DW specifically lacks much in the way of opportunities for players to do this in the midst of 'the action' though. The GM answers all the questions that arise directly from codified moves. Clearly he could introduce Klingons beaming into the tavern as part of setting a scene, but the same considerations apply. Anyway, in terms of classic D&D type McGuyver type SP stuff... Eh, I could see a DW group maybe going for that, to a degree. They'd have to manage their build choices and relationships so as to foster something like that. They could concoct the "Delver's Society" and give it a history of stories of amazing feats of cleverness in 'The Great Dungeon' or something like that, and the GM would need to arrange how pressure is applied to the PCs to bring about that play. It would probably not be exactly like D&D though, and certainly how it was 'driven', the PLAYERS reasons for why they made specific choices, would be very different. I would not ever call it Gygaxian Skilled Play, but it illustrates that the resulting narrative of play might not be enough to diagnose which type of game is in process.</blockquote>

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