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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fenris-77" data-source="post: 8251396" data-attributes="member: 6993955">So, to begin, I don't actually disagree with you. MotW can be run exactly as you describe, and feel very neotrad, to use a current buzzword. However, that's not how it has to be run, or even, I might submit, how it's supposed to be run. A close reading of the actual game, which I've done recently because I'm going to run it, would suggest that the focus is on the players and their characters, with the mystery as background. There's no more prep in MotW than there is in AW, or DW, IMO anyway. The mystery is secondary, what's primary is the players playing their characters and deciding how they respond to all the terrible things that are happening. They have to make hard choices, they have to save bystanders (or not), they have to decide what's worth sacrificing to accomplish X. Maybe it's just me, but when I read it, I didn't get a neotrad feel at all. You have characters and you put them in difficult or impossible situations and they have to react. I think the reason that the mystery part is so, IDK, 'easy', is because it's not the goal of the game, unlike say, CoC, or better yet the GUMSHOE versions thereof. It's just a cool genre puddle for characters to stomp around in. Pert of this might be how I approached the game and my expectations, based on previous PbtA play, I'm not sure.</blockquote>