It is probably my favourite hack of PbtA, but that is a highly personal thing. The books add more details, and are good. I would consider grabbing one of the quickstarts to cover a lot of the information, since they are free and cover the base rules and setting ideas. I will try to break it down, being someone on the exact opposite end of knowledge/engagement with these products.
This is many questions, and tricky to answer concisely. Which doesn’t you wouldn’t like it, just that it is a different kind of fun. , I would say it’s very different from the type of game you usually post about. It works best with GMs who are flexible and willing to let the story go in directions they didn’t anticipate. I would say PbtA works best with players who want a game that is more about developing a dramatic story, rather than tactical gameplay, and are willing to let their characters make mistakes and cause problems for themselves. Adventures don’t have planned arcs, they have complex situations with competing factions to pull PCs in different directions.(This second example is a really elegant way to avoid never ending interrogations, or players resorting to torture because they don’t think they can get good info otherwise). Or if the players are interrogating someone, that might be a ‘Try To Understand’ move, with possible results being: Ask 3 questions which the GM must answer truthfully Ask 1 question which must be answered or you get no useful information. So if they attack someone, that might be a ‘Choose Violence’ move, with possible results being: Full Success - do damage and take none yourself Partial Success - choose to inflict damage OR take no damage Miss - take damage. Then when players do something risky or uncertain, the GM decides what move they are doing. How this works is that most play is free-form roleplay/conversation, with the GM deciding what makes sense. Think of these as distinct procedures for different types of situations, like how some editions of DnD had mini games for different situations. Dice checks are called ‘player moves’.Probabilities are weighted towards mixed successes.Some features common to (most) members of the PbtA family: It’s not usually as light-weight as what we usually think of as ‘story games’, but at its heaviest the mental load will still be less than, say 5e. I think of PbtA as a robust, flexible engine for drama-focused RPGs.
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