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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8416636" data-attributes="member: 42582">I've played it.I'm guessing I mentioned it when we played. I don't think it ever really came up. In one of our sessions an invisible shoggoth went past the PCs, and I think I described a rushing wind. But no one tried to fight it!I don't see that rule as a big part of the system, so I'm struck that it gave your group pause.Yeah, I don't see how to reconcile Cthulhu Dark with the idea that the GM decides based on experience, or the GM calls for a roll based on what they know about the setting.The highest result in the pool tells us how well the PC did, and if a die was rolled for opposition, tells us whether or not the PC succeeded or failed. The GM doesn't get to set a target number or call for some boutique roll or anything like that. And as far as "playing worlds" is concerned, what counts as a sufficiently well-formed action declaration, and what range of consequences are permissible, are not discussed in the rulebook. The group has to bring that from some other RPGing experience. I used BW-style intent-and-task.EDIT:I don't even know what it would mean to "game" the Cthulhu Dark system.Or what it would mean to "game" most of the RPGs I play, to be honest.This is part of my puzzle with FKR. To the extent that it means fictional positioning is a necessary prerequisite to action declaration, then the only RPGing it seems to be in disagreement with is a certain sort of approach to D&D play that probably peaked during the 3E era.</blockquote>

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