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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8560980" data-attributes="member: 93670">I feel some of this in my soul & it's good to see it put in terms of the video game comparison that I can roll up into a newspaper shaped stick to verbally swat someone with.  In my wednesday game the players literally know of two problems (one related to a player's spreadsheet-esque backstory & one a world/regional geopolitical problem) but in both cases the players have no reason to know anything & in fact have reasons they should know less than even the average nobody.  In multiple sessions I've gone over the downtime rules & taken the time to read out the investigate/gather info downtime activities.  Even with me putting a spotlight on them while pointing out the problems they don't know about.  Repeatedly the players have stared at me like I was saying useless things & declare they were wandering that way or anything but engaging in the downtime activities.  Currently they are escorting a trade caravan west without bothering to investigate the "werewolf problem"  with the clear & stated expectation of learning what's up by doing so.  I don't think that they know or will care that the "werewolf problem" is not going to give them clues by escorting a trade caravan  & that it very well might get worse if they get involved with the infrastructure projects they are going to find at the caravan's endpoint.I think some of the problems mentioned by the OP can only be chipped away at by including a well designed <a href="https://fate-srd.com/fate-core/conceding-conflict" target="_blank">conceed mechanic</a> alongside extremely dangerous & possibly death spiral-like combat akin to what fate has, that's the only system I've ever seen players try to run before someone's lungs are metaphorically exposed to the ground.</blockquote>

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