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Yes, there’s a difference between a player actively seeking to position things to his character’s strengths than “just describing it...

Yes. I'm saying there's a bunch of Player Principles about not going "I MUST USE MY BEST ABILITY OR FAIL." They're in the book. I dont...

Yes but let me break it down further. If making a move on a miss means introducing a problem we could, very broadly, put the generation...

Yup, that's a great way to not have fun playing Blades IMO. But if it works for someone else, great. It's no example of how the game is...

Idk man, playing like that is ignoring the Best Practices that are supposed to help the players bind their instrumental play to a...

Yeah, I think lowering Position and/or Effect is something that’s missing when I see complaints like this. The book provides a page or...

See… “they are all combat skills” is what I think is off. And also “you just try to describe the thing so that the best skill applies”...

I've never had any issues with the BitD skills. If a player is edge-casing they can but it'll lower position and or effect. I'd agree...

This sounds very off to me. It sounds like players trying to angle to use their best action rating for as much as possible. Yes, players...

I'll accept that the games I mentioned - In A Wicked Age, Wuthering Heights, and Cthulhu Dark - are pretty niche. But I've never read...

An example from something I did for publication. This is the set-up for an adventure of mine called Unseen Alchemeticals. The important...

Yeah idk, the book is widely accepted to have some serious organizational issues which maybe results in people getting a little lost...

I design and publish my own stuff, so to some extent the answer here comes from that experience as well as prep I do for my own personal...

Yeah, running Blades in the Dark a few times taught me that the way it structures a city-by-districts with a handful of points of...