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I like games that have an expectation of a "Downtime" with a different zoom level built in, be that via loose procedures or genuine...

I dunno - when I walked out of the theatre where that film was just playing, I overheard the other patrons saying "That was too...

“Fiction first” means that we need to describe and understand the fiction of an action before we can adjudicate it: “For example, in...

That's not an uncommon take. But for games like Blades and AW it really does matter. Both games and their various progeny take the...

A quick(ish!) example of how this plays out. First score of my BITD game, a crew of Radicals. We've established that they want to do a...

Blades was the first game like this that I ran and I ran it before I played it. We went from 5e D&D to Blades. I think coming from...

My man, that stress gauge is going to fill faster than you'd like regardless of which rules you are using.

Nope, I went into blades etc with minimal narrative experience and actively ignored most of the advice I got from folks I saw around...

Yeah, a racing clock or whatever has its use at times; but just as a personal measure I tend to just use at a time and tie everything...

Yeah, you need to go with a variety of consequences, with Clocks being only one such option. You need complications and Harm and...

Pacing. There are benefits to allowing to tension and pressure to build, especially in the context of a game built on heists and...

Yes, obviously we do. The game does not need to always punch the characters in the face on a 4/5 or even a 1-3. Sometimes it makes more...

But I can't get any more fiction into my fiction first gameplay, I had to unload it all to clocks!

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

Yes,there is a way to avoid that mechanically, but at some point I'm getting into "explain the entirety of BITD's rules" which gets a...