PBTA CFB FITD and other narrative systems.
I see a lot of rpgs nowadays that are either directly or indirectly related to these systems. And I really want to get into them but there's this tension in the fiction for me whenever I try and interact with them.
From my own understanding. And please correct me if I'm not getting it, these games are said to be fiction first. Meaning that what happened is a result of the world itself and what you are doing. You engage mechanically only when the fiction would call for it.
But the biggest confusion I have about it is how to ensure this works consistently? In pbta systems for example success with a complication can seemingly spawn things into existence? Or different parts of the system can just have things happen that don't make sense? Or weren't there or planned. I understand improvisation is a large part of any RPG but if it's ALL improv then is there an actual sense of world there? How do you all understand it? How do you make GOOD SENSIBLE complications or success? And do you think these types of games can be run in a way where the fiction it's trying to model is simply a living hostile world?
I really like the rules light aspects to a lot of this, I feel like it's a lot easier to play or possibly to run. But I only seem to find rules light attached to games that have this narrative focus where players have way more say over the world outside their character than I would like to have as a player. I want to control my character and interact with the world and explore it.
Am I looking in the wrong place or am I misunderstanding how these games work?