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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pedantic" data-source="post: 8966185" data-attributes="member: 6690965">We agree here! I'm just very sad at how much easier it is to pay for crunchy design work in a cardboard box to be enjoyed over 2-6 hours, than it is to pay for crunchy design work in some books to be enjoyed over a year. I will 100% pay the Kingdom Death prices, even without the miniatures if someone would just do all the mind-number design work for me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />This is cool! You're systematizing something I used to throw out in the uh...I cannot remember the term we settled on, the MMI discussions, where you specifically provide the consequences of a course of action and/or the odds (or means to calculate the odds) when a player proposes a course of action. I was throwing it out there as a crazy thing to do in response to every player declaration, but if that's the core game loop and baked in to action declaration, it's a lot clearer.My only concern there is that players can only see consequences one declaration into the future, which has some warping effects on how they plan things. I count it as an advantage of a specified DC system that players know the total scope of all possible results of an action, but not how those results will play out in situ, on the current board. That, and personally, I much prefer that experts break the RNG for some rolls at some point, but that doesn't really work in a system like this where skills don't have variable difficulty tasks assigned to them. Really, my preferred system gives players lots and lots of techniques under the guise of skills, and then offers a push your luck mechanism to reach for stuff you haven't unlocked yet.Yes, but I don't even think it's malicious, it's just hard to play a game with an unknowable board. An unknown board is doable, but the fact that it can and will change, and in ways that aren't necessarily divinable from the outset (presumably they can be inferred to some degree from the fiction, but I'd rather they be specified by it) struggles to hold form as a game for me. It sounds like you're using clocks to delay the onset of lots of consequences happening, which is an interesting solution I need to think about.This is very much where my sim credentials fall down. I love littering my wholly complete, self-contained worlds with all kind of surprisingly level appropriate problems, admittedly mixed in with whatever else you know, should be there. If my PCs get any advantage over the "average" adventurer, it's that they're lucky enough to rarely find themselves in environments entirely lacking something within their paygrade.</blockquote>

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