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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8093249" data-attributes="member: 16814">I see how you had trouble with that.&nbsp; Not sure how the rulebook presents is, but that mechanic is a very large shift in play from how 13th Age normally does play, moving from a set of GM moderated resolution mechanics to a conch passing story mechanic is an abrupt shift that can be quite jarring, especially for a table that has little to no experience with such story tools.Honestly, I'm not fond of that tool.&nbsp; It's a bit too close to letting players propose both the problem and the solution in play (avoided only by passing the conch between steps).&nbsp; It's too pure storytelling for me, I think.&nbsp; That said, if you use it to expand places that you were just going to skip over, I can see it do very well.&nbsp; I could be a great tool for expressing core character concepts, though, perhaps at the start of a session to get everyone on the same page on who the characters are.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 8093249, member: 16814"] I see how you had trouble with that. Not sure how the rulebook presents is, but that mechanic is a very large shift in play from how 13th Age normally does play, moving from a set of GM moderated resolution mechanics to a conch passing story mechanic is an abrupt shift that can be quite jarring, especially for a table that has little to no experience with such story tools. Honestly, I'm not fond of that tool. It's a bit too close to letting players propose both the problem and the solution in play (avoided only by passing the conch between steps). It's too pure storytelling for me, I think. That said, if you use it to expand places that you were just going to skip over, I can see it do very well. I could be a great tool for expressing core character concepts, though, perhaps at the start of a session to get everyone on the same page on who the characters are. [/QUOTE]

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