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I like it as Moves against the PCs can be quantified. It provides permission for GM decides. Dice rolling provides an increased risk to the party (risk of increasing GM resource).

One can zero-prep using material one is familiar with (published or otherwise). For instance it's very easy for me to start a session in towns and cities of published settings where I have a decent amount knowledge of. What I'd also dig into are the characters: Who they are? Their bonds...

I don't play BitD but I've been experimenting with more player-facing mechanics etc in our D&D and I empathise with both situations. I treat each situation on a case by case basis. If the specific threat is something they expect OR if it's part of a larger player-facing mechanic I reveal the...

I propose a name for this approach, the staggered skill challenge

Like many things it can be used for good and bad :) Besides sharing in joy (laugh) it is an indicator for like-minded persons to enjoy a well written post or perspective. You can also use the thumbs up as a thank you. But otherwise yes it can be used to denote and cement tribal mentality

Good catch, I find this quite interesting. I can only speak to my table of course how this almost came about for our game (and we were committed to following it through). A while ago each PC was banished from a dimensional plane that was closed. I decided the banishment would work in a way to...

Yes thanks I saw! See below for my answer on this. Yes funny enough I was reading on this while you edited. Apparently it was a fad for non-Māori to tattoo themselves in the 90's (maybe even later). Given that he was also in school, he was a child essentially. It seems then from a historical...

Religious script has meaning too...

In what way is it offensive? People often get tattoos from various cultures, Eastern or Religious scripts, historical and/or cultural art etc. You may look at it as negative, I view it as an appreciation no different to me using someone's D&D idea from their table. The dude was not making money...

Languages and Communication, Customs, Sex, Religion, Eating Habits, Hierarchical Societies, Parenting you name it I think are all pretty cool things to explore between various species particularly in a setting such as Star Trek, even more so in the melting racial pot of DS9 which it does so well...

I was swaying both ways on this and my thoughts are you are right about this. If one thinks of Actors and Authors - you can see the late Heath Ledger fully embodying the Joker character in the Dark Knight (pure actor stance), but no one can deny that GRRM is not fully immersed either with his...

I feels this ties back to something @AlViking said upthread, where he believed that Trad-gamers try immerse themself into the character whereas the other side treat the character as some sort of avatar. I suspect there is some truth to that but it is not the whole story there is also: -...

All good! I understand your preference.

Hey I should clarify, the PC was not looking for a trap. Along the journey I asked the PCs what they would be doing as they had just left Mirabar (city in FR) going northwards. I narrated that there was a lot of traffic along the road coming to and from and that they could engage with the folk...

I can see the pitons and climber's kit and someone didn't secure one of them tight enough and one dude drops as the loose piton/s reveal themselves, while a second makes a STR check to alleviate the pressure on the remaining pitons. That is cinematic. I envision the first guy could suffer a menu...

Good question. So falling down in D&D would be d6 per 10 feet with the requirement to making an additional climb check. So a soft move for a hand cut would be 1-2 points of damage and you cannot hold anything with two hands until you either have a long rest, receive magical healing or you hand...

That soft move would likely assign some mechanical penalties as well not just colour consequence. Particularly in a game like D&D where the primary language for most players is mechanics. No. They've had 50 years, there is no excuse anymore. They have a website where they can dump basic advice...

Fair. I was just shocked at how quickly he opened it. PC went off the road to investigate something, found himself in a ditch (failed to notice it while trying to focus on his target). The ditch housed an abandoned foothold trap, his fall luckily saved him from getting caught, but clipped his...

Just as an aside, I once got locked out of my place as the wind blew the front door shut and it auto-locked. As it happened the only option was to call for a locksmith (my sister who had the spare was out of town). The dude literally took 30 seconds to unlock the door. I dunno if that is...