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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8616111" data-attributes="member: 42582">But it is a step in a fortune resolution process. That overall process is FitM, in that we don't know what actually occurred in the fiction until the whole process is complete - as the example of Harguld shooting at the Gnoll shows, the steps in the resolution process, including the breaking of the tie by triggering a trait, can establish the fictional parameters that governed the shot in the first place (eg that Harguld let the Gnoll get too close).I don't know how big a deal the previous paragraph is, but it reveals some truths about TB - eg we can't use a map-and-tokens to track everyone's positions. (At least not without some system of interrupts - eg by being too cunning, Harguld allows the Gnoll to use an interrupt to get closer than it was when the attack was declared.)I think Nature has to be declared with the action, either as help or as a self-buff. So I agree it doesn't feed into any FitM concerns.I haven't seen much Torchbearer action, and hence not much trait action. But combining my play experience with my reading of the text, I don't think the function of the "reaching" rule is to restrain player use of traits. The restraint on the use of traits is the once-per-session rule; and the Scholar's Guide has a discussion on how to adjust the balance of the system if session refreshes become too frequent due to short sessions.As best I can tell, the function of the "reaching" rule is a reminder to keep the fiction coherent (whatever that means for a given table) and vivid. If a player can think of a way in which First Born figures despite the absence of trees, stars and ancient memories - perhaps the blandness of their preserved rations makes them pine for lembas, and that sets back a test being made on the back of a recovery from hungry and thirsty - then to me that seems to be a virtue rather than a flaw. To me, at least, it seems that characterisation in Torchbearer is expected to be bright-hued and in-your-face, and traits are part of that, and the reaching admonition is part of that.</blockquote>

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