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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...

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...

Ok! I mean, people talk about GM forward OSR play as being totally obvious and easy to do and I bounce off it hard for a variety of...

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”...

the game is pretty darn clear on what is what and where you’re walking the edges. Once in a while there’d be a question of “is this A or...

In my experience if the GM has done "a boatload of prep" that tends to move it outside the realms of a collaborative table and into the...

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'm not actually contesting the idea that good prep by an experienced GM leads to internally consistent setting deployment. I was only...

Assuming equal skill on the parts of Laura and Liam, it can go either way… but I tend to lean toward Liam as being more likely to...

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

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...

You know how we enforce internal consistency in my hundreds of hours low-prep game? Lots of notes to reference the fiction on, a Miro...

Are we assuming that the boatload of prep is specifically relevant to play? Lots of prep isn't really. There's also the question of...

Speaking just for myself, if my RPGing produces stories that are comparable to B-movies, or to second-tier late-70s Marvel Comics, I'm...

The multiple layers of resilience reminds me a bit of Agon 2e. Though the Ironsworn systems is more intricate, I think. I haven't tried...