In searching for another thread about Powered by the Apocalypse style games, I found this one, which I think has deepened my understanding of PbtA.
I've never liked PBTA's "moves" system, which always felt fiddly and twee to me... define the game world as a series of buttons players can push, but give them names like scene band song titles.
Will you Pay Evil Unto Evil For The Milkman's Sake, or Bargain With The Butterdish?
Will you Pay Evil Unto Evil For The Milkman's Sake, or Bargain With The Butterdish?
And the fact that PBTA stans always want to phrase it as "well, this game cares about the fiction than the crunch", like a layer of arbitrary UI gloss over everything is somehow more organic than just describing your character's actions in story terms?
This thread for the first time makes it make sense. I understand what it's doing and why, and I see where it has uses.
Still not likely to play or run a PBTA game, but I am intrigued by the structural approach.
