Quick question: Do conditions clear at the end of each session? My players showed me on the reference sheet that conditions clear, but that would make one of the end of session moves irrelevant. Thanks!
Quick question: Do conditions clear at the end of each session?
Quick question: Do conditions clear at the end of each session?
Not that I know of. We haven’t played it that way and I don’t remember any bit in the book talking about it.
By default: no. Except, as you say, getting rid of one through that particular end-of-session move. Some conditions might clear at the end of a scene if the relevant actions have been performed (“hurt someone or break something important” etc) but there’s no clean slate otherwise.
In the case of significant time passing between sessions — where it feels like the heroes would’ve had enough time to work their immediate emotional issues out — I give everyone a clean slate but ask what conditions they cleared, then pick a few of the matching end-of-scene condition-clearing actions and use them to generate details about what happened during the time lapse. Almost like a mini love letter.
eg:
“Star Shine, you cleared Angry and Guilty sometime in the last two weeks, yeah? So what important thing did you break, or who did you hurt?”
Ooh, I like that, Matt M.