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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9050857" data-attributes="member: 42582">This post is about stakes. It will be shorter than the previous one.As a "story now" GM, remember that what is at stake - that is to say, the way the opposition that you've presented speaks to the players' concerns for their PCs - does not have to be grand, let alone grandiose. It just has to matter.Think about things that matter to people in real life: Who will look after my pets while I'm on holiday? How am I going to pay my rent? even How are we going to split this restaurant bill?In RPGing where the players establish the concerns for their PCs', and where your job as GM is to facilitate the expression of and engagement with those concerns, including by providing opposition, you can go small just as much and just as easily as you can go big. The main constraint, I think, is not the scope of the fiction but rather what can your chosen system's action resolution rules handle.It is because many systems oriented towards "story now" RPGing can handle small stakes as well as more grand ones that they can tend to produce play that feels more "intimate" or inward-focused.</blockquote>