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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8993538" data-attributes="member: 42582">Here's a passage from Dogs in the Vineyard (p 89):The stage: your room at night. A possessed sinner creeps into your room without waking you. . . . 

I should tell you, in an early playtest I startled one of my players bad with this very conflict. In most roleplaying games, saying “an enemy sneaks into your room in the middle of the night and hits you in the head with an axe” is cheating. I’ve hosed the character and the player with no warning and no way out. Not in Dogs, though: the resolution rules are built to handle it. I don’t have to pull my punches!

(You’ve GMed a bunch of RPGs before, right? Think about what I just said for a minute. You know how you usually pull your punches?)Right. In MHRP/Cortex+ Heroic we call it the Doom Pool! (Spend a d8 to add a Scene Distinction.)In other words, once again we're in agreement!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8993538, member: 42582"] Here's a passage from Dogs in the Vineyard (p 89): [indent]The stage: your room at night. A possessed sinner creeps into your room without waking you. . . . I should tell you, in an early playtest I startled one of my players bad with this very conflict. In most roleplaying games, saying “an enemy sneaks into your room in the middle of the night and hits you in the head with an axe” is cheating. I’ve hosed the character and the player with no warning and no way out. Not in Dogs, though: the resolution rules are built to handle it. I don’t have to pull my punches! (You’ve GMed a bunch of RPGs before, right? Think about what I just said for a minute. You know how you usually pull your punches?)[/indent] Right. In MHRP/Cortex+ Heroic we call it the Doom Pool! (Spend a d8 to add a Scene Distinction.) In other words, once again we're in agreement! [/QUOTE]

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