2/7 I'm a game developer! I'm currently working on a #solarpunk #PbtA #TTRPG called Starship Odyssey. Re: video games, I also have a bit of experience with Unity and Blender. I'm also a pixel artist. I've created a few animated .pngTuber characters for myself and friends.

@kaisla I have not tried #YZE, but the one time I played #PbtA I bounced off hard from the rules.

I guess I like it better when the rules are fairly clearly defined, and the PCs have a significant power curve over the course of the campaign.

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@Tim_Eagon Several newer #PbtA games call those GM things Reactions. I'm very much on board with that.

We might also say the GM has exactly one move:

"When they look at you expectantly, when there is golden opportunity, or when they fail a roll, pick a Reaction."

This way we see that Reactions are more akin to options on player moves.

I'd long been interested in #MonsterOfTheWeek (#PbtA game of slaying modern-day monsters, in style of Buffy / X-Files), so leapt at chance to actually *play* - & our party of Divine being, grizzled Expert, monastic Initiate, and journalistic Snoop scraped through in keeping London safe (that week at least!)

@Tim_Eagon See in my mind, while those are definitely gamist elements as described by the GNS, it also explains why the GNS is not a particularly good tool for analysis of this sort of understanding.

Yes, very much it gives you more revealed access to the mechanics as a result. Yes, you have a lot more access to mechanics which follow on from your take on the fictive narrative space in #FitD, compared to #PbtA games.

That is absolutely the case, but I don't think it necessarily follows that that makes it more gamist. Instead, I think it merely gives you mechanisms around establishing your response to the narrative and allowing you more narrative control as a player.

Philosophically, I don't think it makes it more of "a game," but, as I said originally, more of a conversation with impacts that flow in both directions.

So I would be strongly in agreement with you as to why I have the same preference. You wouldn't get really good solo game mechanics out of #PbtA, unless they first passed through #FitD.

Mechanically, they are very different in their approach to the role of the player.

@Tim_Eagon I'm not sure that I would agree that they're more gamist. I will say that they do have far more player-facing interface by design and intention than #PBTA. And as a result, playing them feels a lot more like you are co-creating the experience with the ostensible GM, than you are just receiving what you're told.

There's more emphasis on "play as a conversation" in the #FITD designs because it's inherently a structure in which you can be told a thing and then respond, "No, that's not what happens," and then do something about it. In fact, one could argue that is the core of the engine.

One could make the argument that FITD is more narrativist than PBTA on those grounds. The narrative is equally accessible to all players rather than just one player, and it can be appealed to in order to make mechanical elements function.

I much prefer the FITD lineage to the more pure germline PBTA designs. I think the market has largely borne out those preferences as well.