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LIEF takes Ressilmae aside, out of earshot of anyone nearby. "With respect, you need to pull yourself together! I brought you here because you're a man of faith. But you're a man of the world, too! Only you can understand where the Mogul fits into the war beyond. He plans to stalk everything...

"I'll meet you in that abandoned orchard outside the 'wood. Keep them safe!" LIEF whispers to VORN and rushes off before he can respond. The shifter bounds from branch to branch up into the trees and lets out a hiss at the wretched dogs. They charge headlong toward him, and Lief leaps through...

TERJON glances at STARN, momentarily at a loss, wishing for some arcane salvation. How long has it been since someone asked to be his squire? How long since someone was worthy? And this boy? This boy... "You honor me," he says, "A word?" The knight smiles warmly, and gestures to Lord Padraig...

LIEF surveys the gathering crowd from above. Still reeling from the fact that the Elect seem to be everywhere, that traitors seem to be everywhere, he drops down, seething. He stalks into the crowd, eyes darting across faces. He recognizes some of them. He's laughed with that one. That one, with...

LIEF stammers, looks for the words to explain...everything. It's too much. To tell people like Starn, Sariel, and Vorn what he is, what he was forced to do—happy to do?—for the Elect was one thing. To reveal that to this holy man, in front of these children, with the startled eyes of the lyre...

"No!" LIEF yells, and somersaults over the gathered children to grab the falling elf. Intent: Prevent Ressilmae's tumble down the steps. Primary Skill: Acrobatics. r(14)+12 = 26 vs. Hard DC (21). Success. The children are just starting to scream and boil away from Lief. Now standing below...

LIEF crouches on the roof of the temple, absent-mindedly touching the charm around his neck, a small wicker paw adorned with real wolf's claws and a slitted eye chalked in white in the center. A symbol of luck for the Mogul. He took it from one of the Elect under the mausoleum. [Level 4 neck...

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LIEF can smell more Elect down those stairs, that sweet incense they harvest from the orange moss that grows on the tree they hang traitors from. He imagines himself dropping down and taunting them, pushing the stag out of his way as he cackles and makes them pray to a careless god, savoring the...

Makes total sense! But still seems like you're adding an element that isn't there. Which is probably a good idea—and, again, a sign of the system's weakness, or at least its trad-ishness, imo.

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@hawkeyefan That sounds like a really big system shift to me, basically doubling up on consequences—PC takes Stress, also gets a narrative consequence—but I can see how that would make combat more interesting. Applying a full PbtA layer over the core mechanics, pretty much. I feel like that's...

Works just fine on my Mac using the default Preview app. I wonder if something else is going on?

LIEF crouches at the edge of the Tombwood, remembering his time in the Elect. As one of the sheltered Chosen he never made decisions—barely saw the outside of his tent or the prayer circle or the training grounds. But in his boredom he would reverse-engineer the elders' rationale. Where they...

I forgot to reply to this, too. I agree it seems easy to house rule it up without breaking things, but I think the clear need for that is always a major knock against a game's design. That said, are there house rules you've come up with that have worked well at the table? I've got a couple so...

Totally agree. Though I think for it to really work, they'd need to introduce some new mechanics that let you abstract some of the espionage/resistance cell activities, sort of like how Heart abstracts some delving elements. I think that's a tall order, and involves really diving deep into what...

I'm running Spire now, and there's a lot to love. I think my only issues are that: -For a game that seems more narrative than trad, most rolls are actually still very binary as far as moving the narrative forward. If you succeed at a cost (an intentionally very common result) you get what you...

Once they reach the trees, LIEF stops the merchants. He motions for them to sit or lay down, then starts hurriedly working on them, applying tourniquettes to bleeding limbs, starting to make a splint and then settling for a sturdy tree limb for the one who's having trouble walking. Their...

LIEF drops into a roll among the attendants and lashes out at three of them in a blur of feet and closed fists. He doesn't touch the fourth one, the boy whose hands shook during the bloodletting. PRIMARY SC Intent: Knock out the attendants.Secondary Skill Stealth vs Easy DC for +2/-2. r(5)+12...

Lief doesn't have to feign curiosity as he asks the groundskeeper for more details about the estate. Lief watches the man as he answers, watching for curt responses, evasions, and all the telltale signs of prey turned skittish as he's forced to live among predators. Intent: Figure out how where...