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The GM narrates the outcome of the roll. He says what happens, and then adds “I’m adding two ticks to the X clock” to represent that...

A consequence clock is just a way to be non-arbitrary about outcomes in a way the players can see. A goal clock is a way to be...

GM judgement and GM fiat also aren't quite the same thing.

There is a ton of GM judgement involved. If there wasn't we would not need principles about how to apply that judgement. What it is true...

Sure. But, I want to roll back to the start of this thread of conversation - the assertion that how hard a thing is to do is never...

I think part of the issue there is that it's coming from an old-school approach where consequences are something to be avoided, rather...

7th sea 2nd edition was downgrade from 1st edition. First, they changed from call raise first, then roll to see if you made it to roll...

Logically, I understand why folks would do something like this, and I can't tell them to stop or say its bad for them. What works...

We get into this a bit in the generative resolution thread. I dislike the narr/sim framing though. From where I stand AD&D is closer to...

“Fiction first” means that we need to describe and understand the fiction of an action before we can adjudicate it: “For example, in...

Im not sure what you even mean. What is the effort you are referring to? Who says the ritual cannot, in cases like big magic...

This may end up getting them the 'adult time' talk if the group felt it was ruining play, other times it may be just fine...kinda...

That's not an uncommon take. But for games like Blades and AW it really does matter. Both games and their various progeny take the...

Just me thinking over how rolls have gone for us.... purely subjective here.... In how our games have played - this is not "a thing"...

Nah. This was session zero. We had not started this game yet and the comment was in reaction to a list of possible triggers, not...