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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 8269404" data-attributes="member: 6696971">Absolutely.But let me propose an analogy that I'm confident is apt.5e is basically a (pre-Aventador) Lamborghini.  Its got the Lamborghini V12, its got the insane exhaust note, the look, and the "this machine wants to kill you" qualities that enthusiasts swear is the beating heart of Lambo.  The actual driving characteristics are not remotely integrated to create a very tuned, very stable, very reproducible platform for the driver to experience.  The driver is going to have to do a hell of a lot of work to make the machine "not kill them."Blades in the Dark is the Porsche 911.  The engine, the suspension, the gearbox, the responsiveness of the steering, the chassis, the downforce, the driving position (etc etc etc) is tightly integrated, tightly tuned to create a very_specific driving experience.You can't switch out the engine because the Lambo enthusiasts will exclaim "LAMBORGHINI IS NOT A LAMBORGHINI WITHOUT A V12!"  So maybe you switch out the gearbox.  Oh no!  All of these 2nd and 3rd order effects are now chaining!  Oh well, that is basically "Lambo feel 101"; on the edge of disaster and the driver has to do everything possible to keep the thing not wound around a tree.  That is the challenge, that is the joy of driving this car (running this game).So that was my response to Imaro.  Just switch out the gearbox (say you can perform Action Resolution in the past to perform a "Flashback" which subtly changes a complicated situation in the present...if you fail on your roll, now its even more complicated!).  (a) You get to do "heist-ey" stuff by flashing back and saying "I did this cool thing", (b) there is risk/reward (you subtly further complicate or subtly mitigate a present complication), (c) its less laborious and less intrusive.  I mean, you're never getting anything even in the same universe as the Porsche 911 driving experience (not even adjacent)...but again, that isn't even desirable for Lambo enthusiasts.</blockquote>

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