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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9852775" data-attributes="member: 29398">My own personal experience with this is that while I might sometimes get a sense of some pending thing happening, the achieved accuracy of that sense both in outcome and in timing ranges from mediocre to abysmal.Given that, I don't assume any greater degree of intuition on the part of my characters until-unless something in the game tells me I can; on which the fiction becomes that much less believable.As a player, the narration of slowly-approaching doom (if done at all well) would or should be enough for me to roleplay the increasing stress being placed on my character.  A player-facing clock or counter would a) needlessly add out-of-character stress on me-the-player and b) make that sense of impending doom far more accurate in terms of timing and-or nearness than seems believable.Conan might, though - were he more math-and-stats inclined - have all the other warriors he meets, plus himself, test their strengths* against each other and then come up with a rough numeretic scale to represent how strong each warrior is in relation to the others and to himself.  It wouldn't be a nice neat 3-18 bell curve, of course, as that's supposed to cover the whole population rather than just the elite warrior types, but it'd still be a numeric representation of relative strength among those he hangs out with within the fiction he inhabits.Hard to see how the same could apply to a clock where the characters can't necessarily see or know what's coming, or how far off it is.* - something less easy to objectively test and compare, such as Charisma, would suit your point better, as at least some of that is in the eye-ear-head-heart of each individual beholder.</blockquote>

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