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Nope, I went into blades etc with minimal narrative experience and actively ignored most of the advice I got from folks I saw around...

Yeah, a racing clock or whatever has its use at times; but just as a personal measure I tend to just use at a time and tie everything...

But your whole explanation of how clocks are the main framing mechanism for play is simply incorrect. They do often measure when...

Yeah, you need to go with a variety of consequences, with Clocks being only one such option. You need complications and Harm and...

Uh. How many clocks do you have ticking? I'll generally have like. One? Linked to the current score. "Demon manifests" or "Alarm called...

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

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...

My clocks all bring the guards to the yard.

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...