Recent content by Manbearcat

Can you not just talk to them straight-forward with something like: "Hey guys. Fun gameplay at the Moathouse. It seems like the breadcrumbs I put out there to get you to check out it didn't quite do the work I'd hoped. Maybe poke around and check it out? And if the breadcrumbs did work but...

Valak's righteous cause is cemented by steadfastness, piety, and prayer. Avandra's nimbus consumes the form of the corrupted Rakshasa, revealing the Deva that once was. In the radiant inferno, a placid, peaceful smile is found on the soul of what-once-was and shall-be-again...then it passes...

So I'm not familiar with the Cypher system, so I'll have to defer to your instinct on that. However, yes, a bit like Aspect Invocations and a fair bit like AW's hx and Monsterheart's Strings. Here is what the game has to say about it: So on triggers, temptation frequency, and rationing...

"Oh," the dragon chides in its silk-tongued, bass-filled voice. "You think me alone, do you?" Eight megafungi animate with long, rotting tendrils! * Skill Challenge continued... * Illumination: The sunlight from the sinkhole opening above, is sufficient to illuminate all squares. *...

Well, you know my position is that "the idea of writers' room" in Blades in the Dark isn't remotely legitimate. Its about as illegitimate a position as one I've seen because the key feature that makes up the formulation just isn't there (its entirely the opposite). And this gets to why I end...

The above might look and play very much like a writers' room, pending how obliging the "live negotiation and honest collaboration" are. Now the upshot of this here above; the purposeful introduction and attendant dynamic-altering of the unwelcome and the unwanted upon play via "system's say?"...

As far as I can tell, what you've done here is the following: 1) You've turned a proper noun (the specific, named concept of Story Before coined by The Forge) and transmuted it into a common noun (story before) that you're now coining for usage of a very general concept. 2) You're...

Goal: Convince the dragon of its terrible fate and to abandon that course when it comes to it, thus preventing the dark future of the dragon, the mother, and the infant. DCs 16/22/31 2/6 Successes (0 Hard DC available)/0 Failures/2 Secondary Skill Available/0 Advantage) The foliage whispers...

Whether what I've written is what @thefutilist means is TBD (I'll let them agree, disagree, clarify). Its my best inference. However, yes, that is what Narrativist games attend to in their design and their play; focusing on and resolving the game's premise & theme-based collisions of the...