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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6061416" data-attributes="member: 37579">Tried it during my last game. When I explained that they had to roll when doing actions that don't require checks, there was the reply &quot;so you're trying to encourage us not to do anything&quot;. It's tricky, as the point of the game is to poke around, but you don't want to make them stop playing. On the other hand, poking around is exactly when bad things happen.&nbsp;Tying the increase and decrease of the Dread Pool to attacks was a bad idea. It meant when the bad guys were hot and rolling well the Dread Pool jumped, but if the bad guy dice were cold the Dread Pool dropped. Instead, just having it increase at random intervals or, even better, tied to story events might be nice. I can imagine doing certain things increasing or decreasing the Dread Pool by set amounts. And, as before, failing a Dread Pool roll lowers the Pool by 1.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 6061416, member: 37579"] Tried it during my last game. When I explained that they had to roll when doing actions that don't require checks, there was the reply "so you're trying to encourage us not to do anything". It's tricky, as the point of the game is to poke around, but you don't want to make them stop playing. On the other hand, poking around is exactly when bad things happen. Tying the increase and decrease of the Dread Pool to attacks was a bad idea. It meant when the bad guys were hot and rolling well the Dread Pool jumped, but if the bad guy dice were cold the Dread Pool dropped. Instead, just having it increase at random intervals or, even better, tied to story events might be nice. I can imagine doing certain things increasing or decreasing the Dread Pool by set amounts. And, as before, failing a Dread Pool roll lowers the Pool by 1. [/QUOTE]

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