It utilizes this fractal extremely well to create dynamic play for factions that can be used for GM prep and at higher levels domain management. Stars utilizes fractal based design for everything from starships to mechs to factions. It utilizes a very streamlined D&D clone with extremely flexible classes.

Stars Without Number is an extremely cool game traversing the stars, and making your own place in the cosmos.

While players use their playbooks to generate characters GMs are supposed to use a scenario pack to randomly generate the adventure, Scenario packs include tools for utilizing information about the village being developed through character creation.

They focus on problem solving and working together.

The interesting thing about the game is that rather than focusing on dungeon crawls it's adventures are all about the impact that the supernatural has on their village. It provides a set of playbooks that use a set of random tables to generate a lifepath that ties characters to their village and the other players' characters. It focuses play around the village all the PCs are assumed to grow up in. This is a game that places players in the role of young adolescent adventurers. Some games that I find really interesting in this space include: Key areas of innovation include some very targeted games, character creation techniques that focus on providing a strong setting context for PCs, and almost FATE like fractal design to represent everything from factions, mechs, starships, and settlements as if they were characters. The OSR space is really interesting to me. It also really tackles the emotional power struggles that teenagers can deal with on a day to day basis.

Monsterhearts bears mentioning for being one of the most clear and vibrant texts in gaming.

It has varying sets of gender specific moves that play up examining gender roles.

Saga of the Icelanders is a game of political and personal drama about Icelandic settlers in the 10th century.

There are also some really cool 'Grown Up Moves' that reflect a character maturing.

Eventually you can set a label in place, cementing the way you see yourself. How you see yourself affects how capable you are of getting things done. Its stats - called labels - can shift up and down depending on social influence from adults and peers. This is really a game about what it means to grow up. Inspirational material includes Young Justice, Teen Titans, New Mutants, and Young Avengers. Masks is a game about young superheroes coming into their own and learning to function as a team. Some games to look at in this space include: The move structure of Apocalypse World has provided a fertile design language that allows development through play, and the way it skews results towards success with a cost provides powerful snowballing of the fiction to keep things interesting. The two design spaces I am seeing the most innovation in these days is the OSR space and Powered By The Apocalypse games. The focus on randomly rolling things (as opposed to designing a things and getting attached to them) actually harkens back to Gygax's table but it's pretty novel these days, especially when you see it in something extremely non-Gygaxian like MaidRPG. If you want something that's entirely revolutionary in a different way, you might be interested in some of the Japanese games that are getting translated. Especially considering simulationism, while not a new idea, has been dead for a while and pretty much stuck in, like, GURPS and stuff like that. So Song of Swords is maybe more evolutionary than revolutionary, but if it gets people actually on the system, 'streamlined and well thought out' is a good thing too. Plus, it has a very interesting setting, which is already a huge bonus over what Riddle of Steel shipped with. Song of Swords is way more polished, easier to get into, and the system they've built around the same core is just way better overall. The Riddle of Steel was revolutionary when it launched but not really polished so it only took off in niche circles. I've gotta say, Song of Swords is looking pretty good.

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