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Real people make stupid decisions with easily avoidable consequences all the time. Characters who always make the appropriate...

This isn't hard. If the thing the clock is measuring is known to the characters, then it isn't meta. If the clock's reference is...

The GM narrates the outcome of the roll. He says what happens, and then adds “I’m adding two ticks to the X clock” to represent that...

Also, it's so structured. You're telling me that I have to wait for the other guy to do all their stuff, and I just sit around watching...

So every decision made by a player in an RPG is somewhat meta by definition? IRL I don't know my to-hit bonus, damage dice, hit points...

Just a quick aside for those reading this thread and unfamiliar with what might be termed more "narrative" games so that a wrong...

But your whole explanation of how clocks are the main framing mechanism for play is simply incorrect. They do often measure when...

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...

So HmtW doesn't use HP it has something more like damage levels - stressed (like a freebie), talents get damaged and you lose access to...

The fiction isn't "just flavor" though, it's the backbone of the experience? It is how close something is to happening. How likely...

Dang. I would Heat you, but I’d have to charge.

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

But filling clocks is never the goal of play, it's just a way to track what's happening. Actions and consequences are always far more...

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...