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Huh? You can also Spotlight an Adversary or Reveal an Unexpected Danger or Capture Someone to make a move against a player who's hiding out, and make it clear that the lack of action is why, by acting fiction first: "Charis, as you're dithering around the edges of the melee, you feel the kiss...

This is one of the things I really like about the narrativist games that DH has taken a lot of cues from, especially in its Agenda and Best Practices. I play exclusively online without ever looking at my player's faces; and I have multiple AuHD players as well. Relying on things like "creating a...

I do find what Lancer with its narrative expansion & ICON are doing fascinating attempts at having your cake and eating it too here. "Oh, here's your mega tactical grid-based combat, but also your free flowing fiction-first storytelling mode." Ugh, I really want to get DH to the table though -...

Oh, I think that MBC's and y'all's Stonetop etc play is absolutely not reflective of the way many of us play those games, lol. Like, Stonetop clearly intends for there to be periods of "Let it Breathe" on the Homefront where there may be stakes, but they're intimate or about personal lives and...

Daggerheart doesn't agree, although again it's designed to collapse gracefully to more "conventional" TTRPG play. This is a game that intends you as GM to directly spotlight certain players and prompt cinematic action: Lets not relitigate "agency" the way that 10k+ thread over there has, but...

Sure, there's an ebb and flow to gameplay. Nobody can keep the tension ratcheted for 3 hours straight without getting exhausted IMO! In fact after a couple of sessions of nearly nothing but high stakes gameplay and revelations the players in my Tuesday game were saying they were ready for a...

Sure ok, we're back to teh same silly argument about why you'd want to curtail GM power but somehow Uno reversed. "Well the players can just get up and walk away from bad GMing" and "the GM can just flip the table and leave if it's boring" are both facile arguments, and you're completely...

I think it was about 500ish pages ago I noted that as of 5.2024 the DMG once again has advice about skipping to interesting stuff / doing scene framing like movies / letting time pass in montages / etc.

Gotcha, that makes sense from your perspective. Since I don't play games to imitate the banality of life, but instead take advantage of the techniques of scene framing / spotlighting / montages / etc to focus in on what we all share an interest and excitement in, I can see our disconnect in...

Authority over the outcome of the player's actions vs authority over the fiction and scene setting is very different. I know we've belabored this a whole bunch. When we've set stakes for a roll, on a success I can't negate those stakes; likewise the players should look at me and demand a Hard...

I'm open up front when we start a game that if a scene seems to be going in circles or there's nothing at stake, I'm going to straight up ask "hey, is there anything more we want to do here?" Likewise I'm clear that there's specific Moves (eg: Keep Company in Stonetop, downtime actions in FITD)...

I thought the GM should also not feel obligated to facilitate play they don't enjoy? If a couple of the players want to do things that I find unenjoyable (stakeless shopping expedition #137), can't I simply montage that and move on to something everybody enjoys together?

I don’t understand what this means. Also, I feel like we’ve gone around on this before and you just have a very unique take on play that I can’t quite grasp. Are you the poster that would almost prefer extremely defined and constrained procedures the players can navigate with a high degree of...

This is more or less how the Threat Roll in Blades Deep Cuts works. You're going along, stating what your character is doing. Like Blades was always supposed to do, where an obstacle is telegraphed or evident the GM states what you'll get (Effect); but then also clearly states what the Risk is...

A quiet moment where a character brings another one a cup of tea they made just for them, and has a little chat about not being afraid of these new powers is interesting, even if it's very non-action! I posted over in the Daggerheart(+) thread about how the list of "types of questions" to ask...

Urbanborne Being part of an urbanborne community means you’re accustomed to living in a society with a swirl of cultures and walks of life. Urbanborne communities value knowing how to navigate the complex webs that make up life in an area where folks tread on top of each other, where crowds...

I feel like that’s more the Slyborne thing? Maybe something about rules of conduct?

Hm, looks like "you have advantage on a handful of rolls" is a pretty common Ancestry thing. Highborne already has a "negotiate prices" one though. Streetwise: You have advantage on rolls to find your way in urban environments, find the best places for gossip, and navigate day to day...

So what would be a good Community feature for something like a City/Townborne? Order/Sly/Wild/etc all assume a lot about the specific cultural touchstones at play that I think are a little limiting; I bought in Toilborne as other have suggested to cover being from a rural/farming/herding/etc...

I think there's a weird thing that happens in how D&D play interacts with what we are acculturated to expect as "appropriate fiction." EG: in 5e you fail on a lock pick roll. What's the downside? There's a lot of digital ink spilled on "should the players just be able to try again and again...