Recent content by zakael19

It’s definitely closest to 13th Age’s Background mechanic (which inspired Experiences), where they’re mechanical widgets for bonuses to Actions but also a way to denote narrative character growth that can be used as a Flag & as a set of permissions.

The relative low-levels of baked in lore combined with pretty solid magic-heavy class foundations have inspired me to put together and run with a pair of game ideas I’ve had kicking around for a while: one classic D&D trappings campaign heavily based on the world of the Paksennarion books; and...

Have you considered that what we see and understand and onboard from the structure and guidance of the game and you don’t may instead be a difference in perspective? Like, if we’re saying “we’re simply not experiencing these issues” we’re not gaslighting you about your “concerns” but just not...

I mean yes but also it’s a pretty explicit “I’m good at this because of what my life has been” set of fictional permissions and the game spends an entire paragraph telling the GM how to think about it. There’s a lot of abilities you can take in games like Blades or PBTAs that are “when you’re in...

You spend them to add a bonus, but the GM is encouraged to look at them when judging what a character can accomplish/know/etc without any roll (or perhaps by just paying a cost). My players brought a couple of their experiences up as a baseline and I used them in adjudicating the situation...

Already in one short session the players tonight were talking about how their experiences + the lite world details id constructed with them were firming up and the collisions between their characters were opening avenues to change and grow. Also as part of the admin work before we jumped in I...

So one player got in a car accident (rear ended at a red light), making it a session 1 with 3. Opened pretty soft, doing some scene setting around town for people to get into character and know each other before rolling into a background/reasons for being here threaded "town council" meeting...

No, I mean using the Fear to impose the Cost/Consequence. Eg: Fail with Fear on traversing the river and use the Environment's Fear effect (or tick a negative countdown forward, or whatever). Spending that Fear as that Hard Move. Maybe I'm just consistently lucky with the sorts of players I...

One thing that I do a lot in my PBTA games where a 7-9 result on an action tends to carry a "lesser success, cost, or consequence" is offer the players a choice. "I can see the cost being A and the consequence being B, what do you want?" seems to land really well, since the player feels like...

Heck yeah

You have a 54% chance of a hope, but assuming the 11-13ish difficultly at T1 with at least a +1 (and it’s pretty easy to get higher +s), you have about a 70% chance of success (ramping to ~81% if using your +2 stat vs the T1 default difficulty of 11). I do find the suggested chart of action...

@RenleyRenfield out of curiosity, were you all able to rest and use the Prepare activity together to ensure there was some hope balance going? Or did you find yourselves needing to use both activities for recovery moves? I can see the game feeling really bad if the players never roll any hope...

On average the GM is expected to spend 4 fear or less in most scenes, ramping up to more for large battles or character defining scenes. I'm curious to see if I'll have a similar issue with "fear capping" as my play continues (in the 4 hr one shot I played we did seem to get Hope tapped out...

Not on a success with hope, which is what the statement I quoted was suggesting.

Why would the GM do this? One of the principles is to not undermine success. There’s also an awful lot of fairly soft moves the GM can do, and tons of ways to spend fear that aren’t “screw the players” but “add drama/excitement.” The one time the GM is supposed to spend Fear to seize the...