Editing Mano a Mano:Design Decisions (section)

== Player-focused ==

*In combat, the player chooses (or constructs) individual moves for each situation [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_fly on the fly], as opposed to selecting from a menu of combat options each turn.
*Instigators and targets of actions are equal participants in a collaborative story. (A kind of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_lib "ad-lib"] - literally "at liberty")
*Character points are more strongly associated with players (CP/Character Points.)  Players could control more than one character, or CP could balance two unequally-sized groups of competing players.
*Character generation and development is very open-ended.
*Generalizations like "class", "level" and "alignment" are avoided.

What Player-focused is NOT:

*GM-focused - action and characters totally conform to the GM's description and schemes
*setting-focused - action and character development defined by the adventure or campaign material
*genre-focused - action and character development models stereotypes and archetypes