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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yora" data-source="post: 8655524" data-attributes="member: 6670763">Apocalypse World is not a game in which the world exists in a defined state and the players have to discover it. Neither do player use fixed character traits on fixed world objects to produce a statistically likely outcome.It really is more an activity in which players and GM go back and forth between them to create a story. The world of the story is being defined through the things that happen in the story. Facts are established while they are happening, not before.All the rules of the game mechanics are not to allow the characters to do certain things, but to restrain the players and GM in what kind of new facts they can make up. Players declare intention for what they want to happen next in the story, but dice rolls will affect the outcome and consequences of that follow.If, as a player, my character's sheet says Cool +2, that doesn't actually define anything about my character. What it does is that it increases my chances to control what consequences happen when my character does something that shows off how cool he is. If the sheet says Hard -1, I have a decreased chance that moves that show off my character's hardness will have the consequences that I intended.Apocalypse World is where the phrase "the game is a conversation" comes from, or at least become prominent. And that's not just a banal way of saying that the game is being played by talking. It really is an activity of all the involved people telling a story in which they take turns saying "and then..." followed by "but then..."As I said above, the rules and the moves exist to give some structure so that people don't talk wildly over each other all the time and no single person gets to be in charge for too long. One of the players says that something happens, then the GM says that one thing happens. Then again a player gets to say one thing that happens. All the moves are tools to help the GM with guidance on what might be appropriate to happeb next, and to practice restraint in not negating too much of what the players want to eatablish.</blockquote>

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