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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8278387" data-attributes="member: 18">If that's what you mean, that makes sense, but then we're just talking past each other!When I hear swing for the fences in the context of "adversity hose", I absolutely do envision "do the worst thing possible at all times". I literally cannot see any other way of understanding that. But you've clarified your actual intent here, which is what I'd guessed previously.I don't think that's a great way to convey what you're apparently trying to convey. I think you're actively confusing the issue by using that language. And two principles at the minimum apply - "follows" and "fan" both apply.To me, those both imply what I would personally term "pulling punches" on occasions, in that my heart or mind might leap to an idea, but it might not follow ideally, or really fit with being a fan of the characters. They also mean leaning into them sometimes, because yeah, sometimes you do need to really whack 'em, esp. when as mentioned a softer move has been ignored. What they don't mean is "adversity firehose" to me. I don't feel unconstrained. I can't just go with the first thing I think of. Because I constantly have to consider the principles and the fiction, I actually feel pretty constrained. Not in a bad way, of course, constraint can good.Whereas 4E I was able to cut loose in a completely different way, and literally try to just use the best tactics I could to try to kill the PCs. To me that was more unconstrained, even if the initial scenario setup required constraint.That's you misunderstanding me in the same way I was apparently misunderstanding you. I was referring to following the principles, albeit I could have been clearer (I'd also entirely forgotten what they were called tbh).</blockquote>

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