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Again RAW first game - or at least a credible effort at such (I can't claim 100% rules accuracy on a first game). This is generally much...

Dogs in the Vineyard does something like this, although - at least by default - without intertwining the various characters.

This, this right here --- this is the kind of thing that keeps me coming to EnWorld. Awesome stuff, @hawkeyefan.

It's been ages since I've played, but, looking at it now, I don't see "say 'yes' or roll the dice" or TB's Good Idea. Granted, I never...

Torchbearer uses, as its version of "say 'yes'", "Good Idea" - which is mostly GM control over pacing/focus. Because of its turn/grind...

I don't have Mouse Guard, and have never played it. I have a memory of being told it doesn't have "say 'yes' or roll the dice". And so...

OK. But if we don't regard risk as inhering in fictional position, then an instruction to the GM like "only call for a roll when there...

I was just rereading Vincent Baker on character sheets and currency: anyway: Things on Character Sheets (2) In the constable example...

In Burning Wheel, the rule is "say 'yes' or roll the dice" in combination with the GM's job being to frame scenes that put pressure on...

At least the way my table interprets the (Torchbearer end of the pool) rules, this is the mental calculus I normally run through: The...

The GM needs to frame the player into decisions that are consequential for the mechanics. I’m bad at explaining how to do this because...

Sure, but I don't think this shows that it makes sense. I mean, WotC could write that, canonically, there is a circular square. But...

Oh, how I wish that were true.

I mean, when I've brought in consequences like that it followed from: the factions in play and their assets the playbooks/interests...

Session Zero Okay, so... Session Zero. We pretty much have two jobs to do here. Detail the world and then create our characters. The...