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Don't mind me, just trying my hand at some practice homebrew. FARMBORNE Being part of a farmborne community means you're from a rural...

This is something I've REALLY struggled with both as a DM and trying to get players on board with this idea. The notion that because...

True, I've never played in your game, but, by your admission, they are failing fairly often. The idea that there is only challenge in...

One of the absolute best pieces of DMing advice I ever took from a module (and I have no idea what module this came from, it was too...

Whether or not @pemerton knows the math isn't important. What's important is that, most of the time, ten rolls are tedious (especially...

So, is making it up before a good thing or a bad thing? Because you normally create your adventures in advance, right? Meaning you...

Well, is it? Because if "making it up before" doesn't have a set time period but is somehow better, at least for some people, and...

I meant narrative games. But the same is true of all games--the GM probably shouldn't put stuff in the players don't know about yet...

Well, that's entirely the point of these games. From BitD's GM Prinicples: Let everything flow from the fiction. The game’s starting...

So, making it up seconds before is OK? Because I know that if the player says "I'm going to try to do this thing," my mind is already...

I'm not sure why there isn't a straightforward NPC Ally rule: Any player may choose to spend a Hope in order to spotlight an NPC ally...

How far in advance does it need to be made up? Weeks? Days? Hours?

Was there a cook in your BitD game? So if you make it up right before the roll was made, what's the problem?

The Firebird said that when they ran BitD, they felt like they were "cheating" because: Except that these are all things that GMs...

How do you know that the cook wasn't going to be there on a success? Did you peek at the adventure ahead of time?