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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 9748783" data-attributes="member: 891">Yeah I can see that.A handy trick Daggerheart does in it's sample adventure is start the questions in some inanely low priority ways."What's special about the trees here in Sablewood" is a prompt question for a GM to ask players. It's completely unimportant and just gives a player a moment to wax poetic.Now that does mean it also fails in a way - it's not important or relevant and so quickly forgettable.But it's not there for you to use that over and over. It's there to as a 'trust builder' for both new GMs and new players to realize asking these questions with some safety around them will add to the fun and not ruin the game. Once the trust is there you can start handing more consequential prompts over to the players. But you start light.Things like this are why it's common to see people say that the GMing advice in Daggerheart is some of the best put out to date. They could remove the game from... the game... and just publish what's left as a handbook on how to run narrative games for people who are new to the format but want to try it out. And it would still be a good buy.Most of us are probably used to the 'GM Guidebook' part of games being useless drivel we buy only because they put the magic item charts or NPC stat blocks in that part, and the advice section was only written to fill page count enough to hit the 'printer's page count margin for a price point...'But that's not the Daggerheart GM section. They did a better job with that section than they did with the actual game - and that's coming from someone who thinks they did a good job with the game part.</blockquote>

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