So I finally had a chance (over the last couple months) to play a Belonging Outside Belonging game and I think I get what people enjoy so much about them
one note though: I think I'd have gotten a clearer initial impression of what those games are like if instead of talking about "GMless games" we talked about "shared-GMing games"
Also, I don't know if this transposes to other games but the one I did play felt like it would benefit from more concrete and frankly prescriptive scenarios and character motivations; it felt very much like a batteries-not-included experience.
Like, as a matter of practicality -- I see why having a game built on on broad overarching themes is valuable as an opportunity to let players figure out by themselves what they want to explore in a given game
But really, realistically most people will play those games once or twice; having a single strongly directed scenario at least as a default, I think, would make things... go more, I suppose
I think there's a bit of resistance to the packaged adventure/module model that you have in big commercial RPGs but honestly those exist for a reason; they're powerful on-ramping tools
Anyway the game in question is a new one, Thistle & Hearth, and I do heartily (one might say *hearthily*) recommend it - ignore my not-particularly-well-informed rambling
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