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Another thing I've done is have everybody roll and whoever gets the best roll is the one who notices the thing. I don't find it fully...

One thing I do for situations like this is ask for everyone who wants to try to make a roll, then I look at the group successes and...

Maybe check out some of the Gumshoe games? In that system skills are split into ‘investigative skills’ and ‘general skills’...

I have no problem with flashback. I've sat at too many tables for too long overplanning a heist to think any differently. I do love it...

One shots and organized play. Try before you buy. No more going in blind.

It appears you think that authorship is a zero-sum game; if the players get to do more, it means the GM gets less. That really, really...

The PC can't experience their luck being ablated. I mean, ablation of luck doesn't even make sense in the fiction (unless it's a very...

Metacurrency as a mechanical resource This is the use of a currency as a resource; used to modify a mechanical effect. Like burning...

What game or games are you talking about? It would basically have to be “improv governed solely by a metacurrency” to work like that...

All of these read like boogeyman versions of what someone who has never played with a metacurrency thinks that they are.

I think it depends how you think of them. You could think of them as spending extra effort. As a real-world example, when I would fight...

An RPG that handles this nicely, in my view, is Cthulhu Dark. PC building consists in choosing a name and an occupation/profession. The...

For me, the answer is that I want to balance the fun factor in the options versus the cognitive effort to learn them. For games that I...

I found it pretty fast to run combats and with experienced agents they did feel significantly high-powered. People were pushing...

See, I tend to find the fun vanishes in D&D because of its generality and lack of any specificity. It does a lot of things, but nothing...