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Not normally, because that doesn't make a lot of sense. I'm just saying that Wisdom (and the other stats) are indirectly used as...

What do you mean by the first part here? The outcome is defined by the dice roll, and the players can manage both Position and Effect by...

But the GM has constructed the situation right? Like in your endlessly reposted examples of BW, you as the GM are providing paths for...

I was going to mention the game of Ironsworn my group has been playing. It’s a GMless game, so I’m not sure how people would view that…...

Yeah, I think that the “solution” to the problem, such as it is, can come from a variety of places. I think for many traditional games...

Well, sometimes I think people have trouble separating “success at what was at stake” with “but there’s some escalation.” Simplistic...

That a monster turns up is "diegetic". That the GM rolls every <insert period here> to see if a monster turns up doesn't seem very...

Which is often that a “mixed success / success with complications / etc” feels worse then a failure somehow if posts on the internet are...

Well I also think that games like Stonetop or Blades or whatever inherently avoid the “wide open sandbox but nowhere to go” problem he’s...

The single biggest thing that the Threat Roll does is change the focus of the actual rolling from testing success at an Action to how...

Yeah, he's the GM. And I'm enjoying it more than I probably make it sound. I haven't bothered with Deep Cuts, but I get the sense it...

Was Rich the GM? Because I think this is also the sort of thing where different table consensus on how the tenor of the game is going to...

I don't think "Provide an Opportunity" is really all that different, yeah? Maybe if the players have 0 input, sure. But when I kicked...

Deep Cuts / Threat Roll fixes this My experience with the system is very different! It’s a tale of the characters succeeding, but being...

We get bad results more than 75% of the time, no matter how many dice are in on the thing. It's seriously Stepping on Rakes: The Role...