Try a system that makes you uncomfortable. Play a game where the rules actively work against your instincts.
Your storytelling brain will thank you.
What system broke YOUR brain?

Now I run mostly MOTW on StartPlayingGames, but when I do run D&D, I bring lessons from other systems:

~Complications make success more interesting
~Player failure can drive better stories than success

If you've only played D&D, I'm not saying abandon it. I'm saying expand your horizons.

~Powered by the Apocalypse games where "success with complications" is more interesting than clean wins
~Blades in the Dark where you plan AFTER the heist starts
~Ten Candles where EVERYONE dies

D&D taught me to think tactically. Other systems taught me to think dramatically.

When my character's "brilliant" heist plan collapsed because I rolled poorly on the chaos dice, we didn't groan. We cheered. Because now we had the setup for an even better catastrophe.

That opened the floodgates. I started seeking out games that challenged D&D's assumptions

The revelation hit me like a truck: This game wasn't about overcoming obstacles. It was about creating the most entertaining disaster possible.

Failure wasn't the enemy. Failure was THE POINT.
My D&D brain couldn't compute. But once I leaned into it? Pure magic.

The system is DESIGNED to make everything go sideways.
Dice determine how spectacularly your plans will backfire.

First session, I kept trying to "win." Kept strategizing to avoid the disaster mechanics. My fellow players were cackling as their characters made increasingly terrible decisions.

Success = good numbers. Failure = bad numbers. The math was simple, the dopamine predictable.
Then someone handed me a copy of Fiasco.

In Fiasco, you play ordinary people with powerful ambition and poor impulse control. Think Fargo meets Ocean's Eleven. The twist?