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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clueless" data-source="post: 3518300" data-attributes="member: 11802">Ok, random thought in the middle of the night just occurred to me. Part of what makes Dread so... dread-like, is a "rising tension" not just over the length of the game, which Rel's Old Maid mechanic will handle, but also in an individual moment. That moment where everyone at the table has leaned in close, all are holding their breath, hands tremble on the tower... there are a few gasps, blocks shiver... and then one way or the other the moment is resolved. Beathing starts up again and everyone settles back in their chairs with a breath of relief (or despair).What d52 currently lacks is that moment. That pause between declaration of intent and resolution. There's no physical 'struggle' for everyone to watch as there is with jenga though - so we need something else to slow things down. A psychological struggle for those at the table to observe and get involved in. To which I propose another alternative rule: The bluffTwo opposing forces (DM/Player or 2 players or what) place cards on the table. They are given the option to withdraw. If neither withdraws, the cards go face up and into whatever discard pile applies.... It is that moment of 'are you sure about this' in which one may bluff to force the other to withdraw their challenge to the event - thereby allowing a player or GM with a really bad set of cards to pull out a miracle. It becomes a game of chicken.Hm. A few other ideas about this to encourage the use. If the challenge is withdrawn (someone wins the bluff), perhaps the card goes back into your hand, and the loser is the only one whose card gets discarded sight unseen - thereby encouraging you to  get the other person to back down? (and negating card counters) Alternatively some sort of minor penalty goes to the person who loses when the cards come face up?Rel, how do we handle multiple person engagements - where a player wishes to assist another player in a contest against the GM? We gotta have some way of determining that. Trump style system perhaps?And as a last note, some mean part of me also suggests reverse OldMaid - where the Maid spells doom for the *opponent* encouraging it to be used but then it may be used in retaliation... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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