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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...

Well, there's the little matter that blades likes to call itself a "fiction-first" game.

In the defense of lots of people, Blades and/or PbtA can be a real issue to grok when you come from different kinds of games without a...

Well yeah, like - consequences should follow directly from the fiction as established, as worked out in the position and effect...

This is the exact opposite of how actions are adjudicated. Our two different readings of the rules on this point explains a lot. The...

Sorry, I'm really not getting why you're bringing this up. I thought we established that this all follows from the fiction / Position &...

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

Anecdata, but at least over on the BITD discord most people spend significant time on Downtime across FITD games (there's been a lot of...

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.