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Sure… but Clocks shouldn’t be the only thing happening. The GM should be mixing things up with immediate consequences based on the...

I don't think there's anything wrong with a mechanism that puts mechanical pressure on the players to ablate the pressure soon or suffer...

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...

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...

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...

I’m not a huge fan of the Threat Roll stuff from Deep Cuts, but I like that it works for some folks. I try to always establish the...

One of many things I love about Deep Cuts is basically getting rid of Controlled as reason to roll dice. Just pay a cost at that point...

Not really. The ticking of a clock should correspond to something in the fiction. It can just be descriptive, but it aligns with some...

So, if the outcome of a dice roll is ever "nothing happens" in a game like Blades something has gone horribly wrong. In a case where...

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

Building on what @Campbell has said, and also what I posted upthread: if the principal focus of play - as far as story/theme is...

It's important, contextually, that "play to find out what happens" is in the MC Playbook. That being said I think Monsterhearts' "Keep...

Last Tuesday I bought a copy of Night Witches and of Badger and Coyote, both intended as gifts for family members.

I bought Alice is Missing today. The latest episode of Ludo Narrative Dissidents podcast is about it and it sounded intriguing.

Loner Imperium and Loner Galaxy Drifter, two more supplements for my current favorite solo system. The first is one of the rare...