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<blockquote data-quote="evilbob" data-source="post: 9644248" data-attributes="member: 9789">One more thought: the whole &quot;secrets&quot; thing is just so weird. They had a great opportunity to create an allegory about how keeping secrets can rot us from the inside, and working through them gives you strength. I mean he's literally the god of dysfunctional communication! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> But instead you also keep secrets, and then... blurt them out into the wind to get a boost? I mean I get it, it's mechanically easy to define, but it's just so... inelegant.My thought is to give players the same sort of &quot;power points&quot; but they earn them by resolving secrets, not just learning them. I've also worked with each player so all their characters have secrets themselves, and at least one other character has some knowledge of what their secret is, with the idea that this will hopefully grow naturally over time into character development. Or not! Their choice.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="evilbob, post: 9644248, member: 9789"] One more thought: the whole "secrets" thing is just so weird. They had a great opportunity to create an allegory about how keeping secrets can rot us from the inside, and working through them gives you strength. I mean he's literally the god of dysfunctional communication! :) But instead you [I]also[/I] keep secrets, and then... blurt them out into the wind to get a boost? I mean I get it, it's mechanically easy to define, but it's just so... inelegant. My thought is to give players the same sort of "power points" but they earn them by [I]resolving[/I] secrets, not just learning them. I've also worked with each player so all their characters have secrets themselves, and at least one other character has some knowledge of what their secret is, with the idea that this will hopefully grow naturally over time into character development. Or not! Their choice. [/QUOTE]

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