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<blockquote data-quote="amethal" data-source="post: 8604642" data-attributes="member: 22784">My objection to playbooks was that I didn't understand what they were, the term was being bandied about on the internet as if everyone knew what it meant, and in the end it became a &quot;useful&quot; shorthand that allowed me to reject any game that mentioned having them, sight unseen. (The only other context I had for them was from American football, which didn't help.) It turns out they're essentially character classes <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> and that I am way more invested in the arbitrary 1970s terminology I grew up with than I had realised.It was actually Beyond the Wall (not a PbtA game) that showed me where I was going wrong. The description of the game made it sound amazing, and I must have missed any reference to playbooks. Then, when I got it I found out it had &quot;playbooks&quot; and my reaction was &quot;Oh, is that all they are? Why didn't they say so in the first place?&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="amethal, post: 8604642, member: 22784"] My objection to playbooks was that I didn't understand what they were, the term was being bandied about on the internet as if everyone knew what it meant, and in the end it became a "useful" shorthand that allowed me to reject any game that mentioned having them, sight unseen. (The only other context I had for them was from American football, which didn't help.) It turns out they're essentially character classes :) and that I am way more invested in the arbitrary 1970s terminology I grew up with than I had realised. It was actually Beyond the Wall (not a PbtA game) that showed me where I was going wrong. The description of the game made it sound amazing, and I must have missed any reference to playbooks. Then, when I got it I found out it had "playbooks" and my reaction was "Oh, is that all they are? Why didn't they say so in the first place?" [/QUOTE]

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