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Adventuring Party composition in D&D fiction is an interesting challenge because you need to both represent the people actually playing...

You can zero prep any RPG. The key is ones own familiarity with the game. Some games, including many PbtA games, are intended to be...

Agreed. You describe everything in terms of concepts and ideas; once you get to a point where the mechanics get involved is when you...

When I do zero prep, I lean into the players. "Who are you? What do.you do? What do you desire?" Then as they actually build characters...

Ran the Quickstart for 3 people. It started out fun. I really like the Connections between the characters and Experiences to drive the...

Yeah, I ran into the issue because I didn't want to take actions away from the player, but the NPC was clearly being asked to do far...

I don't think there is anything in the actual design of DH that would prohibit NPCs that act like adversaries under player control. I...

ok, I will say I love when Matt corrects Travis on how helping works in Ep 3. That is... Travis (and then the other players) started...

You are correct, they did ask for it, and Matt is GMing it well. The criticism that he is not doing enough doesn't stand.

I don't really buy that. I mean, I get the designers think that, but the genre itself often uses what could be called "NPCs". There...

I'm not sure why there isn't a straightforward NPC Ally rule: Any player may choose to spend a Hope in order to spotlight an NPC ally...

That's a weird way to spell "aww yeah."

Both Sam and Ashley risked it all on the death save. They even joked that Liam and Laura would join the show soon as replacements. They...

To each their own. Matt threw a pretty big monsters at the PCs at level one, and two of them ended up having to make death moves in...

Why would they do that? They were a session and a half in. "Deadly" doesn't mean "meatgrinder".