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Is the conflict trigger the connected part, or the connecting part? That is, the bridge between set-up and consequence. Let me spell...

I've always found it a bit strange that the differentiation between classes would be found in the mechanics of action economy and...

i might not of played 4e but this is something i still find hard to believe, as people have said, the structure might of been the same...

Nope, I went into blades etc with minimal narrative experience and actively ignored most of the advice I got from folks I saw around...

Pacing. There are benefits to allowing to tension and pressure to build, especially in the context of a game built on heists and...

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

Yes,there is a way to avoid that mechanically, but at some point I'm getting into "explain the entirety of BITD's rules" which gets a...

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...

I dunno - when I walked out of the theatre where that film was just playing, I overheard the other patrons saying "That was too...

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...

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 can't parse this. Games like blades in teh dark are very concretely goal oriented: you need to have a declared goal/objective before...

So that discussion is core to the mechanical design of the game and the way in which it's played. The player is always making...

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...

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