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This is absolutely not what the rules offer.

The game wants you to roll to bypass obstacles using approaches to solve problems.

Blades was the first game like this that I ran and I ran it before I played it. We went from 5e D&D to Blades. I think coming from...

A quick(ish!) example of how this plays out. First score of my BITD game, a crew of Radicals. We've established that they want to do a...

Disagree. We tend to have entire sessions of downtime scenes, room to breathe, develop the characters and relationships, see the city...

Oh yeah, sorry something between 30 and 40 sessions of DC play makes me forget some base stuff. The flip side is that there's a lot more...

My man, that stress gauge is going to fill faster than you'd like regardless of which rules you are using.

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.