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And the 2024 one tries at least somewhat and is soundly rejected by some as a result. Literally a chunk of the theme of the OP.

My original post was a “I don’t think the game is designed for the sort of attritional gameplay and why would you bother.” Got 3 players lined up so far for an in-person game in my suburb (pretty good since the densest groups of players tend to be a little further away). Completed a Forged in...

Just FYSA: all those non-combat spells are under Rituals, or as Feats that allow casters to use alternate bonuses for social skills. It's actually a really clever way to handle it, so you can balance the abilities for combat across all classes / encounters, and then leave everything else for...

IMO, the resolution mechanic feels a little closer to BITD's Actions, with how they've grouped stuff under each statistic. Plus your Experiences are like conditional +1d abilities in certain circumstances.

Two new classes & a bunch of ancestries (definitely not genasi) plus communities (Hearthborne is the official take on humble origins) up on “The Void.”

You also don’t need to like, jump scare players to have a good horror game with plenty of “oh screw you” moments and shudder inducing imagery.

The Horror that comes from being fragile meatsacks facing down things that can crush you like a bug, maybe less so. I think you can do atmospheric Dread & play around with Hope and Fear as being a really explicit thing though .

Yup "Give You a Golden Opportunity" is part of "when to make a move," along with "They Do Something that Would Have Consequences." You choosing to then "Spotlight an Adversary" Is the move you're doing as a result. In the games which DH inherits some of this stuff from, the most common Golden...

The cool thing about these games is they have explicit examples and discussion of what all these GM moves mean, and often how you can use them to do a softer/harder thing depending on the surrounding fiction. You cannot call the explicitly defined procedures of a game "jargon" and then go...

There's a couple abilities in 5e that are analogous. It sounds like here if you pass the OB test and meet the other conditions, you will get a new contact? I don't think that AW/BW have the sort of "spend a meta currency to introduce a new detail to the game as a player disconnected from the...

So because you brought it up again, I think the reason @Faolyn may be suggesting that your inexperience with Blades is affecting your mental positioning here is that your example seems to be not really in accordance with the design and procedures of the game. a) as I and others have posted...

This isn't going to change the conversation at all, but I want to talk a little about BITD using the Deep Cuts Threat Roll again because it's fun for me. The way I personally play BITD with that bit of design is that once we're in "score-space" and an engagement roll has been made, I'm framing...

I just do this in play, or during my walk as I build a possibility cloud. I’m not sure our brains let us show up to anything but a one-shot without at least a little percolating!

Note that I run 2 Forged in the Dark games in constrained settings with 0 prep every week. We just rely on the established factions and their goals, and I’m super lazy so the faction stuff is just off the relationship chart and vibes. I’m doing similar stuff as I set up my Daggerheart...

I haven't run the QS, just played in it, but what I remember from my reading of it is that it's kind of a bad introduction because it's open in the wrong ways (IMO). Like, the questions it prompts you to ask are kinda open and fairly "color" vs stuff you can easily build off of; and the fact...

This is how I do mostly no-prep gaming in Stonetop (a dungeon world derivative from one of the major contributors to Perilous Wilds) - since the setting book is littered with random tables we can build stuff out on the fly together. As you note, building a dungeon / set of point-crawl style...

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They clearly intend that the default is “the NPC helps you in accordance with their motives” and if the PC takes advantage giving Adv is the reward. if you really want to go all the way to mechanical actions, the stuff is on 167 inclusive of “set conditions for when they’ll activate & roll a...

There’s just no intent or interest in statting non-adversaries out in this system. You just show what they do in the fiction, or give a Feature. Some of the sample features are somewhat similar to this, but more discreet so you’re not tracking more stuff. They also serve to like shine the...

166/167, as noted. That also has suggested NPC abilities and such.