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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8139136" data-attributes="member: 42582">Techniques have to be informed by principles if they are to be more than just shibboleths (= empty posturing?).This is why I think the endurance of "map and key" resolution is in many ways a relic. Because the technique lingers on although the principles that gave it meaning - ie that the GM is locked in, and that the players can "win" by working with the information obtained from having their PCs move through the mapped architecture or terrain - have largely been abandoned.You're setting a high bar here!I don't know if my play measures up. As a player I get close to my characters; as a GM I'm tender-hearted. (Moreso, I think, than my BW GM. He can be pretty brutal!)In my most recent BW session, the climax was my (ie Thurgon's) meeting with my mother, Xanthippe. In the real life of the session, this followed the ultimately unsuccessful encounter with Rufus. In the fiction, it took place after we had crossed the borders of Auxol and come back to my ancestral home. Here's what happened next:I don't know what the GM would have done if that check had failed. But I'm glad I didn't have to find out!</blockquote>