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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8278222" data-attributes="member: 16814">If you wear the same straightjacket every day, it starts to feel normal.&nbsp; Then, when you look at a different jacket, you only notice the new restrictions, you don't notice the new freedoms.When I run D&amp;D, I am heavily constrained by the need for balance in running.&nbsp; NOT necessaily encounter balance, but the need to balance that I've created all of the obstacles against that I have to adjudicate all attempts to overcome them (encounter balance is a subset of this). If I don't nail this balance, the game is too frustrating and I lose players or it's too easy and I bore them.&nbsp; This is a limiting straightjacket.When I run BitD, I have this jacket taken off.&nbsp; I don't have to care about balance -- I am to be a firehose of adversity!&nbsp; I am limited in other ways, true, like that I can't do whatever I like in the fiction because I require the players to try something so I can frame it and/or fail at their attempt so I can narrate consequence.&nbsp; Even here I am far more limited in sccope than in D&amp;D.&nbsp; It's a different jacket, but if you're only used to the D&amp;D fit you only see this limitation -- you completely miss that you can finally be totally off the chain as far as pouring on the challenge.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 8278222, member: 16814"] If you wear the same straightjacket every day, it starts to feel normal. Then, when you look at a different jacket, you only notice the new restrictions, you don't notice the new freedoms. When I run D&D, I am heavily constrained by the need for balance in running. NOT necessaily encounter balance, but the need to balance that I've created all of the obstacles against that I have to adjudicate all attempts to overcome them (encounter balance is a subset of this). If I don't nail this balance, the game is too frustrating and I lose players or it's too easy and I bore them. This is a limiting straightjacket. When I run BitD, I have this jacket taken off. I don't have to care about balance -- I am to be a firehose of adversity! I am limited in other ways, true, like that I can't do whatever I like in the fiction because I require the players to try something so I can frame it and/or fail at their attempt so I can narrate consequence. Even here I am far more limited in sccope than in D&D. It's a different jacket, but if you're only used to the D&D fit you only see this limitation -- you completely miss that you can finally be totally off the chain as far as pouring on the challenge. [/QUOTE]

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