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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zakael19" data-source="post: 9625472" data-attributes="member: 7044099">Saying that the book could be organized better is putting things somewhat lightly... The amount of times an answer to something is in a single paragraph under a completely unexpected section is really annoying.Kinda wandering off into teh weeds here, but it's pretty clear to me that BITD was designed to be that answer to the old question Baker posed: how would you make a PBTA-like game that focused on a cohesive group working together towards common goals. The Crew playbooks give you that center, and the mechanisms and phases of play cement it. Can you relax them? Sure. Do I think the game was intended for significant "unstructured" events and simultaneous scores? No, not at all - in part because it breaks significantly from the fictional inspirations. Other FITDs that wander away from lose the focus that Blades gives you.When I'm running a FITD, we do a pretty sustainable loop: session 0 wraps with a clear first goal of a Score (or equivalent) set to do the Approach/Detail in Session 1 and go. Session 2 is fallout, character exploration in downtime (very rarely a Threat Roll if the fiction requires - mostly Gather Info / Fortune), and then again narrowing into both in character and in the clear meta channel our objective & some details about the next Score...and so forth. I find that keeping to the clear structure helps give focus to Score-time; and then relax the tension and delve into costs and relationships in Downtime.What I do like is that newer FITDs have added in some "raid" structures that are like a reverse engagement roll - discovering how much warning you have before a hostile faction (inclusive of the cops) comes calling.</blockquote>

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