TwoSix's latest activity

That's not an uncommon take. But for games like Blades and AW it really does matter. Both games and their various progeny take the...

You need to trademark that shizz.

It's the Rashomon effect; each participant's recollections are their own story, and each story illustrates a part of the greater whole.

Hm? The game presents 5 categories of Consequences (as in, the things you bring into play as the fiction and rules demand): Reduced...

Yes, obviously we do. The game does not need to always punch the characters in the face on a 4/5 or even a 1-3. Sometimes it makes more...

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

Dang. I would Heat you, but I’d have to charge.

My clocks are better than yours, so I'm pretty sure that the guard filled yard you describe is actually mine rather than yours.

My clocks all bring the guards to the yard.

So talking specifically about Apocalypse World as I would run it. The problem with John’s explanation is that the set up and follow...

I don't think there's anything wrong with a mechanism that puts mechanical pressure on the players to ablate the pressure soon or suffer...

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...

One of many things I love about Deep Cuts is basically getting rid of Controlled as reason to roll dice. Just pay a cost at that point...

It's entirely about the roleplay. Gods simply offer a type intelligence and desire to power behind the clerics, and that will color how...

Agree with all of this. Assuming that, the interesting question to me becomes "What do gods provide, in the context of gameplay, that...