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

Ohhh nooo, my cloooccckkkssssssss

But I can't get any more fiction into my fiction first gameplay, I had to unload it all to clocks!

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...

But filling clocks is never the goal of play, it's just a way to track what's happening. Actions and consequences are always far more...

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...

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...

The torch timer from Shadowdark is essentially (and somewhat obviously) just a clock mechanic. I could use Blades clocks in exactly the...

I’m not a huge fan of the Threat Roll stuff from Deep Cuts, but I like that it works for some folks. I try to always establish the...

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...

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...

Oh, I'll echo this from my experience as a player. We didn't have a unified session 0 and wound up with competing motivations in an...

I ran DoD until level 8 or so where the campaign petered out due to real-life issues. For the most part, my platers really enjoyed it...

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...