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A gift from a friend. I had mentioned I was thinking of grabbing the game, and they let me know I could have theirs. I think each book is 600 pages. What was I thinking.

Stonetop opens with an “are you really sure you want to play this game?” section, as one does.

Stonetop does a great job explaining all the concepts of play, including fictional positioning. I often feel many PbtA games do a better job at dungeon master advice than your typical OSR game. This is a clear set of examples on how you might adjudicate a situation.

There are so many moves in Stonetop. It seems a bit overwhelming, but maybe in other games all this stuff is implicit rather than explicit. Moves help show you the shape of a game. I learned in Stonetop you might muster a militia for example.

There are only two types of games in this world: games where the players’ planning is important, and games where it’s not. Stonetop is the later.