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Go with the simplest solution. Their advice is wrong. Spend fear as you please. You don't need to make the game more complicated by...

Well, it wouldn't be the first time the designers didn't understand how parts of their game interacted with each other in the field.

Yeah. It's a great one. I thought about posting it when it dropped but didn't want to deal with the push back.

Colville had a nice video on backstories last week.

There's a Gamers Seeking Games subforum. https://www.enworld.org/forums/gamers-seeking-gamers.49/

3E is very much a continuation of 1E and 2E. It's been over a decade, but I remember things being smoothed out with each edition rather...

I speak from experience when I say I’ve had players like that rage-quit when their beloved PC took a single point of damage. I...

I wouldn't be willing to run an on-going campaign for someone that puts that much thought into their backstory, let alone a 2 hour...

I mean, every character must share spotlight time. As GM, it behooves me to make the game entertaining for everyone. That doesn't always...

Did hell freeze over, or did a ragebait thread actually get derailed into talking about a legitimately interesting discussion about rpg...

Yeah, I'd say that part of the advice was outright terrible. Roughly 45% of PC rolls generate Fear so if you follow those guidelines...

I felt that the “How Much Fear per Scene” was the weakest part of the guidelines. Because the strength of individual Fear moves varies...

My theory is that every time someone gets transported, their traumatic memories get cleaned up and sanitized.

So those extra items they had for sale are from this.

Exactly. It's a self-balancing system. More players means more rolls. More rolls means more referee spotlights and fear. More referee...