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This is more or less how existing DH stuff handles burning, yeah.

Yep... but that burning effect is not represented mechanically unless I create the rule for it... spend a fear to inflict 1d8 (physical)...

I mean, you’re playing S&V. The game gives you Actions which are the sorts of things characters in War Stars and Firefly do. It asks how...

Some folks in this thread should read Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Allison. It’s all about ways of...

When we play Blades in the Dark, through each moment of conversation about the world we are telling the story ("playing to find out") of...

I guess I'm doing this DH conversion thing.

So this is a "yes, but" type thing. For instance, if you want to, say, make Fire a serious part of your narrative (demonic troops, red...

Because "better" is subjective. I find streamlining to be what I think of as "modern." I don't (personally) like looking up tables. I...

So I was looking at DS! and 4e’s monsters (as well as the fiction-first style stuff for PBTAs) and thinking about this, and I think the...

Our group plays a WIDE variety of games. So for us Plot, Story, and Play to Find Out are not all talking about the same potato, but...

Very cool! Yeah, that scene is too good not to show the players, and it sets the scene so well for their slow feeling out of what’s...

I don't remember the details, it's been 15 years... But heavily foreshadowing of Kul during the campaign, and then some clue at the...

I’d say there’s a couple different aspects here (and this is a yes, and). Presenting an invading army that will overwhelm the defenses...

Essentially, at any given moment, the player may choose to do anything (within the context of the fiction and rules). So if you decide...