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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zakael19" data-source="post: 9699975" data-attributes="member: 7044099">FWIW, I've kinda come around a bit on how say Blades encodes this whereas at first I really hated the idea of being all "ok you have trauma now." First, the player picks the Trauma (and in Deep Cuts Harper heard/saw the community liked the idea of them also being able to work through it instead of being locked into inherent self-destructive spirals that's kinda the premise of the core game) when they max their stress - showing the toll that sort of life and world takes. Second, it's up to them to show how it affects them. Even in Deep Cuts where there's provision to "invoke the trauma to complicate the situation" the player can always choose to instead "tough it out" via Stress - reflecting that your mental scars press in on you.Now the game is very up front about this being built in, so if you're not up for that in play, probably best to not play it. I do really like how the FITD Songs for the Dusk handles it though, which is recasting them to Scars - and letting the player define what they are instead of a pick list of "hardened pulp/noir criminal stereotypes." I've got some wonderful ones from my players in that game, that really illustrate how they've been affected by their actions and the world around them on their journey. And since they pick them and write them down, I've got the permission now to grab that with both hands and yank and Invoke (which has led to some of the best moments of RP I've seen).</blockquote>

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