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My understanding is that rolls are only made for narratively complex actions. So, no need to make a check to ride your horse well, but...

Emphasis mine. I am going to want to see receipts for this.

I thought I was pretty clear in the OP, but perhaps not. The "unofficial narrative rules" I am talking about are how players and GMs...

Graxworm – Map 20 – The Tail The Graxworm is a massive dead dragon of mythic scale, several miles long and large enough to contain a...

I caught the first 45 minutes or so of the Age of Umbra Session 0 last night, but then had to go to bed. I was going to watch the rest...

That's because you tend to interpret posts that way. We all know that everything everyone writes here has an implicit "IMO" attached to it.

Why?

I don't think it is a separate topic really, given how linked they are, and that player world building quality is frequently cited as a...

Sure. Fate has been doing this for a couple decades, and Fate wasn't the first. People need to read the inspirations section at the...

Yeah, in doing my research into this, I’m watching the Critical Role Christmas playthrough. And 90% of the time, when Hope and Fear are...

I feel like a very large proportion of objections to narrative mechanics boil down to an unreflective dislike of the idea that anyone...

The discussion of Daggerheart and Hope and Fear got me thinking: D&D sort of has a unofficial "narrative mechanic" in the way that many...

The easiest way to deal with it, especially for folks not used to narrative mechanics, is to have the GM be responsible for inviting the...

And one more thing... I've said this elsewhere, too... being able to bank Hope and Fear -- not necessarily having to deal with the good...

My own nerd discussion group is tripping up over the Hope/Fear thing. "Not everything players roll for has hope or fear built in!" I'm...