Tag: Chris “HyveMynd” Stone-Bush

Simply for my own curiosity, I’m wondering how far people go with narrating sex in their games. What I mean is, where do you fade to black and cut to the next scene? Obviously the correct answer is “as far as your group feels comfortable going”, I’m just curious about where that is generally speaking.

So, where do you fade to black?

As people were so helpful before, I’m asking for more feedback.

Single-minded

At the start of the session, write down a goal you are working towards if you don’t already have one. At the end of the session, mark XP if you made noticeable progress towards reaching that goal. When you achieve the thing you were working towards, cross it off your sheet.

Eh. I dunno if I’m happy with that move. Again it’s for The Ox, and is trying to encourage the player to be a single-minded, goal oriented type character. Slow and steady, one foot in front of the other, one thing at a time.

Maybe there’s a way to do something similar without actually forcing the player to write down the goal. Or maybe it needs to be a roll move. Something like:

Single-minded

At the start of the session, write down a goal you are working towards if you don’t already have one.

When you make clear progress towards achieving your goal, roll with Dark. On a 7 up, the MC will tell you what the most likely next step is. On a 7-9, choose one:

– the next step involves heavy physical labor;

– the next step involves working with someone, the MC will say who;

– the next step involves sacrificing something, the MC will say what.

Hmm… Still not sure about that one either. I think I need to sleep on this. :/

Looking for feedback on a move:

Ruminate

When you take some time to slowly and methodically consider your options, give the MC a String on you. Then ask them, or a player whose character is directly involved in the situation, what your best course of action is; that player must answer you honestly.

The idea here is to encourage the player to be a slow, methodical thinker. Someone who considers all their options before taking action, sometimes to the point of letting an opportunity pass them by. Because the String goes to the MC in general rather than a specific character, I think that limits what the MC can do with that String. Thoughts? Does it seem like a fair trade-off, or should I find another way to encourage, slow, methodical thought?