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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8680769" data-attributes="member: 16814">So, a clock does some similar things, but it's isn't really analogous to hitpoints.&nbsp; When you tick a clock, something in the fiction has changed that reflects that tick.&nbsp; The clock is a way to help measure and gauge the changes needed to get to a conclusion.&nbsp; In the case of a combatant that maybe has a 4 tick clock to be defeated, when the PCs take an action and succeed, they've said what they're doing.&nbsp; The GM's job is to tick that clock according to the effect (severity in BoB?) and then say how what the PCs did has changed the fiction to show that they've made progress.&nbsp; For example, hypothetically, if a PC leaps at an undead armored enemy and attacks with their sword, and gets a clean success on a normal effect, that's normally going to be 2 ticks on that clock.&nbsp; But you don't do just that, you also describe how that attack has changed the situation -- in this case you could describe how the attack hits on the edge of the breastplate, and snaps the rotten straps there, tearing it loose and opening the target up to a clean blow, you've done that job.Everything changes the fiction.&nbsp; Success changes it.&nbsp; Failure changes it.&nbsp; Clocks are there to provide a pacing mechanism to the changes, so you don't go too far or not far enough.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 8680769, member: 16814"] So, a clock does some similar things, but it's isn't really analogous to hitpoints. When you tick a clock, something in the fiction has changed that reflects that tick. The clock is a way to help measure and gauge the changes needed to get to a conclusion. In the case of a combatant that maybe has a 4 tick clock to be defeated, when the PCs take an action and succeed, they've said what they're doing. The GM's job is to tick that clock according to the effect (severity in BoB?) and then say how what the PCs did has changed the fiction to show that they've made progress. For example, hypothetically, if a PC leaps at an undead armored enemy and attacks with their sword, and gets a clean success on a normal effect, that's normally going to be 2 ticks on that clock. But you don't do just that, you also describe how that attack has changed the situation -- in this case you could describe how the attack hits on the edge of the breastplate, and snaps the rotten straps there, tearing it loose and opening the target up to a clean blow, you've done that job. Everything changes the fiction. Success changes it. Failure changes it. Clocks are there to provide a pacing mechanism to the changes, so you don't go too far or not far enough. [/QUOTE]

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