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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AnotherGuy" data-source="post: 9033771" data-attributes="member: 7029930">At the outset [USER=6696971]@Manbearcat[/USER] thanks for your original and follow-up post!You have genuinely given me much to think about and how to ensure I place the game part of the RPG in the foreground for my players, but more importantly for my own satisfaction for, ironically, the game. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":ROFLMAO:" title="ROFL    :ROFLMAO:"  data-smilie="18"data-shortname=":ROFLMAO:" />This was well explained and it all makes sense to me and I'm 100% in agreement.Your first assumption is correct. The PTSD was a hard-move by me for what would otherwise have been PC death if I had used the 5e rules strictly. I had narrated the attacks from the Marilith being synchronised i.e. even though there were lots of attack rolls that I had to make, I treated it as one attack, so the character dropped into unconsciousness instead of death.With the second assumption I'm not sure I'm understanding you correctly, but I had not informed the player of the hard-move. Yet. We are playing this weekend. The discussion of the Flaw/Trait in your (1) below will make it known. I appreciate the effort you went to, to come up with mechanics for the situation, creatively pulling ideas from several RPG's. The Dungeon World link is not something I had seen before and it is certainly a useful resource. Really liked the way the game breaks down the Paladin's Quest move and the Wizard's Ritual move.The inviting the player to vignette on their character's thoughts on the object/event and relate it back to the events of (1) definitely connects with your (i) the autobiographical cognitive space of the participants in your post.So in closing I may be tweaking, but nothing will be thrown in the dustbin. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Thanks again.</blockquote>

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