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One of my main hesitations revolve around indirect PvP. In my experience, authorship devices will be used to exacerbate player conflict. In two different Ars Magica campaigns, several PCs were lost because a player played a Whimsy Card to make a bad situation worse. Whereas only one PC was...

The players knowing there was a frame on the crown prince would certainly have changed the tone of the adventure completely. They wouldn't have told the king he was in fact guilty, for one. They might even have caught the actual perpetrator for another. That was an unexpected outcome that...

I've had similar things happen at my table. In many campaigns, I introduce Lion Rampant's Whimsy Cards which are player tools for applying force/authorship. The players get creative with "Abrupt change of events", "Moral dilemma", and "Unexpected Ally" a fair bit.

I'm not sure why it keeps changing for you. I can only find one view signature control under preferences and it seems to always show them.

Other Xenforo forums I'm on have a signature link where the new Cover Photos link is. Perhaps something went wrong when that was added.

I still see it. Have no fear.

Sounds good! 3 up vs 2 down is quite doable and having an easy to see tracker is worth it! Disadvantage is really rough though. Better not fail your first gambit. If you want to be kinder 0 and 7 as end conditions. Or make it a d8 and start on 4.

I like Consort expansion and using Wis. They map pretty well to the Persuade, Intimidate, Conversation, and Seduction set found in Hero. I do not want you to have you rethink basic mechanics so feel free to disregard. Two clocks would work best if the two sides have indirect competing goals...

The Sway rejoiner should be no harder than a soft move though, should it not? You are prevented from applying a hard move because failure is off the table. So you're pretty much limited to hard bargain or ugly choice as they tick the clock. Since the player can decline to take the bargain...

OK! I was thinking allies don't take up cause was a more specialised success type. Makes sense.

Looking at the set of 3, as they are written, I'd use Consort -- spending my first success to reveal what is important to them and then every other move would be Sway. I can no longer get a Hard Move failure and it will take 2-4 rolls to succeed.

Consort has a default negative that can be erased with a success (being offended by your advance or openness). Assert doesn't. Is a partial success just "not quite as good" success?

Based on the new information, drop the top two and add Elric/Strombringer in their place. There, all magic items are bound demons and spells are really pacts with incredibly powerful beings. Hero/GURPS can still do it (and it would be easier to set up there than a kitchen sink style magic)...

Sure! But most games don't present any or even suggest the GM should give it a thought. And you know what happens when there are competing theories? Someone tries to figure out if any are true usually by discovering where one or more are false. I built an underlying magical framework for 1E...

You know, I've actually seen that argument but in reverse. Mearls working on 4e sabotaged it to get a preferential system. That one doesn't make any sense either.

My guess is they looked at 5e's positioning with respect to the OSR crowd and felt it was way too overcrowded a market. The less served market was between 5e and 4e and so that's where they aimed. It's also possible that their addiction to APs leads them to want a system that more strongly...

Since magic as a a force is manipulatable and exploitable, it is less like gravity and more like electricity. How does one generate it? We have answers. If we use it, does it replenish? We have answers. Can we measure how much there is at a particular spot? Yes. Can we convert to other...

I had players not roll their death saves until someone checked. Until then they simply counted rounds and noted rounds they took damage.

Nagol, my M-U/Thief reverse pickpocketed gifts all the time and would become outraged if accused of it. "Don't blame me! We must have camped too close to the faerie kind last night!" "We spent last night in a temple." "Maybe the god's spirits like you?"

Somewhat though damaging effects scale their difficulty with their effectiveness. 4th edition has a baseline for different effects so one could reasonably contrast the difficulty of going invisible with killing someone. I recommend glancing at those baselines and making adjustments to better...