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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8161201" data-attributes="member: 6779310">'struth there...I measure my own GMing in terms of how many informed choices am I giving my players, rather than directly measuring agency, because (in no small irony) when I open up the agency too far, the players can wind up at a total loss for where to go and how to kick things off. That's where Mouse Guard and Burning Wheel are outstanding - the need to have BITS in BW, and BIGs Mouse Guard helps spur that.  When you're forced to build BW style beliefs, you've prioritized elements you want framed.My wife dislikes BW, but is happy with MG... She doesn't flourish in Marvel Heroic, either, but had few issues with Firefly. She has issues in T&T, where I use the implied and exampled but not in the blackletter rules stupid PC tricks, because she seldom has good ideas for them unless I use support mechanics.To exemplify the support mechanics...Taking 1 extra share of damage is a Level 2 SR on a suitable attribute by description of how; 2 extra shares is Level 4, 3 is level 6, and so on.Doing directed damage  (identical to missile damage in effect) to one target with spite (rather than spreading it out) SR 1 on Luck. Doing directed damage with melee weapon, SR (dice)... noting that in 5.x and later, weapons all do 2d6 or more...Isolating yourself and a target from the larger melee: SR based upon ratio of Hostiles to Friendlies in the fight.3:1 against is SR 6;  2:1 is SR 4, 1:1 is SR 2, 1:2 (ie, 2:1 your favor) is SR1, and better than that, SR 0. Usually I use speed as the basis for that save.Now, some other players come up with all kinds of off the wall stuff....EG:  "I want to time my attack to coincide with Steph's Take that you Fool! so that they can't see it." "How many dice you want to add to damage?" "Double," said he."That's 5 extra... SR 4, Luck."Many players who read T&T don't grasp that that kind of "wild idea and an off the cuff save to implement it" is actually core to Ken St. Andre's intent. In exactly the same way the super simple combat in 3:16 or Mouse Guard is.</blockquote>

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