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<blockquote data-quote="kenada" data-source="post: 9340132" data-attributes="member: 70468">There’s a part in the third video (see below, warning starts with NSFW language) where he discusses a PbtA move with a 7–9 result that is “Someone is watching from the shadows”. The problem as he sees it is the game is not telling you who has the authority to say what that is. Does the GM? Do the players? He also goes on to discuss constraints. If there are no constraints —the answer is completely out of the blue—he likens it to playing Mad Libs.I particularly liked this part because he’s not excluding games he purportedly should favor from criticism, but he also touches on a problem I’ve had running complications and consequences (in Dungeon World, my homebrew system before some rule changes, etc). I get too cute with a complication that seems like it came out of nowhere, much to the players befuddlement? GM’s playing Mad Libs instead of doing his job. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😂" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" title="Face with tears of joy&nbsp; &nbsp; :joy:" data-shortname=":joy:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />[MEDIA=youtube]Fs4AI9anGJg:2852[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kenada, post: 9340132, member: 70468"] There’s a part in the third video (see below, warning starts with NSFW language) where he discusses a PbtA move with a 7–9 result that is “Someone is watching from the shadows”. The problem as he sees it is the game is not telling you who has the authority to say what that is. Does the GM? Do the players? He also goes on to discuss constraints. If there are no constraints —the answer is completely out of the blue—he likens it to playing Mad Libs. I particularly liked this part because he’s not excluding games he purportedly should favor from criticism, but he also touches on a problem I’ve had running complications and consequences (in Dungeon World, my homebrew system before some rule changes, etc). I get too cute with a complication that seems like it came out of nowhere, much to the players befuddlement? GM’s playing Mad Libs instead of doing his job. 😂 [MEDIA=youtube]Fs4AI9anGJg:2852[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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