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Message: <blockquote data-quote="modiphius" data-source="post: 6670026" data-attributes="member: 6696016">Except the GM can do whatever he likes with those Threat Points - but it's a mechanic to help increase the sense of dread amongst the players and IT WORKS when you play the game Bob. I don't know if you've tried it yet? We will be posting a play through soon including the epic Howard's Day game filmed around Robert's dining table so you can get a better feeling for this.  Have you ever known a GM to make life easy for the players? It's always about challenges and pushing, and making their game fun. Sometimes it's exceptionally hard for many GM's to get across the impending sense of doom. Not everyone is an actor or a story teller. Threat Points help everyone get across the drama to come. They're as much the same as the GM evilly rolling dice behind his GM screen as a pile of growing Threat - every player knows things are going worse and I don't think there's any difference between secret dice rolling and open Threat - you have NO idea what they're going to be spent on, or in fact if the GM will spend them. I've rarely known players to be conservative either, and if they're scared by a pile of chips then surely they'd be equally scared if you start rolling dice behind the screen? The thing is with Threat is that most of it is there because of their actions, because they decided to push the universe. They can expect the universe to push back and some.I've been GM'ing since I was 9 years old - I treat threat - danger, calamity, intrigue, betrayal, all of those things are exciting events in which players can shine, in which they can show how great their characters are. It's wrong to see increased difficulty / Threat / danger as a bad thing. The reason players are at the table is to get in to danger and figure out how to get out of it. Threat gives you a structure to make it fair and fun for both GM and players and to help raise the tension. I strongly suggest you try playing with it, because then you'll see how fun it can be. In all games players are confronted with all kinds of things that remind them they're in a game, dice, pencils, paper. Threat Points are nothing new in the GM tool box and a good GM leads the story and embroils the players in his world. I think you'll find every player has a sixth sense in every game that trouble lurks around the corner - it's no different. And if you think when the Threat Pool is low that there's no trouble coming think again - remember that the GM can have scripted events and NPC's waiting in their droves around the corner. Remember a GM doesn't need Threat to activate NPC's, only to activate them BEFORE the players. So I can write in that there are 10 traps in the next room, that an army of mercenaries awaits through the door and you'll have plenty to wory about without a single Threat being spent. I think you're seeing Threat as a lock that absolutely controls everything the GM can do and that's wrong.</blockquote>

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