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Well, if you can't align on X but can on Y, Z, A, B, C, etc., then play those other games. If you can't align on most of those games, or...

It seems the discrepancy could resolved for you if the runes remained a map (or way out, or whatever), even on a failure, but something...

Indeed, one of the common complaints about BitD is that a score can turn into a comedy of errors if a GM doesn't exercise such...

In my understanding of the term, it absolutely should maintain the failure (the "fail" part), but that something else must happen to...

I'll admit, I've not kept up with the 2024 version. I wasn't a fan of some of what I saw in the playtest material.

I believe @AlViking is using the term as set out in the article by John Harper I mentioned.

I have observations on this, but I'm not sure it would be conducive to a healthy discussion.

Indeed, that's what I linked to earlier.

Yes. I linked it earlier in this thread. Matt Gaston, a senior employee of Crystal Dynamics, made his own Tomb Raider RPG as a passion...

I complain about both things. I'd much we use downtime and training more often, but my players mostly want to, "get to the action" 🙁.

Especially when nobody complains that the fighter somehow magically got a new combat-oriented ability or feat out of nowhere without...

Agreed. I would have much more detail in my games as player or GM if I thought my fellow gamers would let me get away with it.

I think there is something here, depending what the metacurrency in question does. Especially when it's a system layered on top of a...

Same in 2024 version.

Exactly. Every person and table as a level of realism that they like, and it can vary by aspect of the game. You could want more...