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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jacob Lewis" data-source="post: 9726110" data-attributes="member: 6667921">You’re misreading the table as a hard rule when it’s clearly a guideline. The book even says so in bold, on p. 155:More importantly, you’re also missing the broader context of the whole chapter. The GMing section is intentionally conversational and not a rigid ruleset. Right from the introduction to the chapter (p. 141):It also encourages you to spend Fear when you have the opportunity (p. 147):And it flatly states that you can make a GM move whenever you want (p. 149):Finally, on p. 152, it reminds you that your style is your own:The “per scene” table isn’t a restriction—it’s a pacing tool. The real advice is: spend Fear in a way that serves the scene and the story.Final thought: When read in full, the GM section — and really the entire Core Rulebook — builds its guidance in a deliberate, connected way. Early chapters set clear expectations that the GM’s role is flexible, interpretive, and story-first, and later advice (including the Fear spend table) is given in that same spirit. If you lift one piece of that guidance out of its context, or treat a pacing tool as a fixed rule, you’re no longer engaging with the system as it’s presented. Daggerheart isn’t meant to be run piecemeal; it’s designed so that the principles laid out at the start carry through to every part of the game. Ignore those foundations, and of course the advice will feel mismatched — but that’s a result of losing the context, not of the advice itself.</blockquote>

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