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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8426491" data-attributes="member: 6779310">The same is true for Sentinel Comics - it's also move driven - but it's also a bit more trad than most of the AWE/PBTA derived families.THe GM has regular turns for his NPCs, and there is a GM plotline, but in-scene it's move based, and doesn't even have a normal risk of failure.It has the narrate it to have your character do it, it's move based, and it has 5 basic and 2 special moves; all the various special abilities are combinations of one of those 8 moves. (Special moves require an enabling special ability.)The SC moves being Attack, Defend, Boost, Hinder, Overcome; the special moves are Heal, and build/summon. Unlike AWE, failure isn't a possibility most of the time; Overcomes can fail, all others simply have quality of success A & D from 0 to 16, B & H having a range from 0 to 4, and overcome has 5 levels that aren't numeric... Fail+Complication (roll<=0), player choice simple fail or success+major complication (Roll 1-3),  Success+Minor Complication (roll 4-7), simple success (roll 8-11), Success plus bonus (roll >=12). Not that the ranges on Boost or hinder map to the same ranges.I found the AWE/PBTA mechanics much more comprehensible after running SCRPG... and there's a reason: SC is strongly influenced by both AW and Cortex Plus. (It's mentioned in the starter kit credits.)If one needs a way to ease into AWE styles of play, SC can be that first stepping stone... it still has a GM and the GM frames the scene, and it has a victory condition for every scene, and is mission based. But in scene, players narrate until they hit one of the moves, or trigger a special ability they have; if they get to the ability, they can stop narrating and roll the dice; if instead they describe a move but don't see it, the GM can interrupt to have them resolve it. It's not in the same space as any of the AWE/PBTA games, but it's a big step in the direction, but also only one of several such steps distance.</blockquote>

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