I’ve been advised by the wise that our new system for Soft Horizon qualifies as being “Powered by the Apocalypse” but it has enough deviation that I’m queasy about baiting and switching the very dedicated community of PbtA gamers. Since you’re them, how do you feel about it?
The Soft Horizon series, a multiverse of Heavy Metal proportions, will be a series of individual stand-alone games that can be trivially linked together. They follow the principles of success with cost, player-side-only dice, and costs. They don’t use playbooks, aren’t restricted to d6, and generally don’t pull any text from existing PbtA games that I know of.
So if you picked up a PbtA game that didn’t have those things, would you feel burned by it? I know it’s just fine as far as the Bakers’ definition goes but I’m not sure that definition overlaps significantly with the actual market’s feelings on the topic.