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The 'fiction' is what matters, not the clocks used to track it.

Lazy Litch's stuff is always great, although wildly idiosyncratic.

But filling clocks is never the goal of play, it's just a way to track what's happening. Actions and consequences are always far more...

I think that kind of play is also ignoring that, asa player, it’s not quite easy to predict when and how a clock will fill up. I think...

None of this really captures specific action declarations by the player. My concern here is that is that the basic declaration - climb a...

This is an issue once players start framing actions in terms of multiple goals. It gets a lot harder to adjudicate. Action declarations...

I'm not quite sure why the mechanical play of "Set up as many clocks as possible, and finish the job just before any/all of them tick...

That might be ideal, but it simply isn't practical in terms of actual play. I can see why from a distance and mostly not informed by...

The torch timer from Shadowdark is essentially (and somewhat obviously) just a clock mechanic. I could use Blades clocks in exactly the...

The player is going to have a different idea of "success" though. They have some end goal in mind, and are making the move to reach it...

I thought about it and didn't. I don't actually have whips in SoE as they were part of Cursed Scroll 2. We can probably assume whip...

Thank you. Okay, so I have both types in play. There is a solitary one without context to the players but I do have clues seeded in play...

Clocks without context are abstract, sure. Clocks in actual use aren't abstract at all but represent various long-term projects or...

Thats really good

Part of the deal here is what I'll call proffers. The player says I want to do X with the intent of Y. The GM responds with some framing...