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are your other fellow players feeling the same issues and concerns? Maybe have one of them broach it instead of the guy who just was DMing and may come off as “you’re not doing it how I like” even if inadvertently.

how have people been finding the encounter building math? Putting together some potential things for the party to deal with and wondering how much I should stick to the guidelines etc. Probably a little under, or avoid leaders/solos for the first couple as we learn the system? I’ve heard that...

At this point I think every single poster in this thread that's even a mild proponent of the concept of Fail Forward in any game has exhaustively explained what it is to him, including a massive variety of examples from at least 5 different games to include running 5e.

FWIW, I've kinda come around a bit on how say Blades encodes this whereas at first I really hated the idea of being all "ok you have trauma now." First, the player picks the Trauma (and in Deep Cuts Harper heard/saw the community liked the idea of them also being able to work through it instead...

Ok, going to actually start working on an Urban Fantasy frame now. I've been batting around the idea of something set in an early 00s Seattle for a while (was drafting a PBTA based on DW at one point), just had some great ideas for how to incorporate a couple of the ancestries (big Japanese...

Thresholds at least let you do balancing without having the “0 damage” outcome that’s pretty common in PBTAs that use a damage die + armor stat. I think that always abrading adversary and player resources on a hit (or a miss for Stress abilities) is a good thing. And it makes abilities that can...

No no no, we did this already. I and others provided a whole set of potential outcomes with various fictional pathways and reactions and ways we might handle it in both PBTA and other systems. Specifically in response to your constant deluge of questions. You even responded directly to these...

Sure it does, those are guidelines across all aspects of the game of a general gist of how you should consider picking moves based on Action Roll outcomes. Activating an adversary to make a return attack is right there under Failure with Hope, on that page, as I've said like 4 times now. You...

Page 100, as I noted above, under the heading “Battling Adversaries.”

Ok, the following is a) me thinking through how I understand the guidance of Daggerheart around the GM and Player "turns" and b) coming from the perspective of somebody who mostly runs games where the GM never rolls and everything comes from the player actions: DH has the concept of a...

A) there's been a bunch of discussion in the Age of Umbra thread that he's been doing exactly that :P. But also B) as I edited above to note, I forgot that DH makes a distinction between Turns and Spotlights (the latter always being about Characters). The moves the GM is suggested to take on a...

Yeah, that's fair - although I'm pretty sure it's been defined multiple times throughout the years with this specific crew of back and forthers; inclusive of me sharing the version that Stonetop uses with context on a page where everybody still participating had a back and forth about it.

Note that this is actually not quite true, this is picking GM moves in accordance with the Agenda and Principles. I guess I'll take a step back and clarify: GMs don't have the spotlight in the same way - DH is a little particular about using that term to apply to Characters (NPCs or PCs), so...

Even more specifically: it's not left there dangling as a sentence and a "ok cool, figure out how to do this." It's defined with explicit guidance around how to run the game (and what not to do) to achieve that goal, and then you're provided with a long list of GM Principles and Moves that help...

I'm not quite sure how this refutes my statement? Having the spotlight / taking a turn is semantics. One Move a GM can do on their turn is actively Spotlight a singular adversary, but this is also semantics - they could've called it "Take an Action with an Adversary" (and you'll note that "Make...

Hm? The GM gets a turn/the spotlight back from players under the following conditions (spotlight/turn is synonymous): • Rolls with Fear on an action roll. •Fails an action roll (on the literal example list on a failure with Hope is "an adversary attacks"). •Does something that would have...

It’s so interesting to me to see this continued emphasis on “it’s more immersive to look to the authority (GM) for all details not from my vetted backstory” when like every game coming out rn is tending further towards creating a collaborative tone and table as the default. I think there’s...

This seems to be one of those hard-line sticking points. Some of us think that being asked to add details from your character's viewpoint would enhance the experience because of shared ownership + having to imagine senses and knowledge and then push that into the conversation. Many others seem...

Had something wild (for me) last night, an in-person session 0 just down the road from the house with a bunch of other locals. As noted previously, I had them pick an instinct/belief as one experience. We have: Felian, orc/human mixed ancestry seaborne Ranger, from a clan of religious zealots...

While I can see where you’re coming from, I think that there might be a distinction between a Front/Threat and at least what I think of when I see advice like “prep situations not plots?” The former is a fictional chain of badness, and once written down the principle of “always say what your...