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I would be as happy with that as “I use persuade” or “I use mind control”. If the player is not very experienced I’d let any of these...

Similarly — I basically agree with you. Definitely the character does not know that the fun is in going insane, and I think it would be...

But that's exactly what they are! They are a mechanical, formal way of quantifying how your character can interact with the world --...

I do agree that it is not an absolute -- few things are! But my experience running CoC is that the genre shows people investigating...

But the character exists IN the genre — the only understanding they should have is based on the genre, not on a simulation of the...

This happens to me all the freakin' time in real life. It's getting to the point where I don't even want to go to fancy dress balls...

It's a very gamist way of playing, which is fine for many people. But it often feels like an artificial constraint imposed by the game...

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...