#RPGaday2017, Day 21: What RPG does the most with the fewest words?

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#RPGaday2017, Day 21: What RPG does the most with the fewest words?

For this, I'm actually going to go with a category of game, rather than a particular product.

For my money, nothing communicates the flavor of a setting, a character, and the experience of what playing is going to be like, quite the way that a PbtA playbook does. In a page or two, you get to know all of that, while also communicating pretty much everything you need to know as a player.

Now, PbtA games are not always my jam, but I haven't found any other RPG that communicates so efficiently. Given my own tendencies to overwrite, it's an inspiring bit of craft. If I'm curious about a PbtA game, I often just grab a playbook, and that teaches me an awful lot about the game in question. 

And in honor of the question, that's it for me today!

~Killstring