Sudden Moment of Clarity:
Sudden Moment of Clarity:
I don’t want to build Role-Playing Games, I want to build Role-Portraying games. Role-Playing as it is used in modern parlance implies “Play” as in game, something with extrinsic value, such as a win-state. Role portraying emphasizes portray as in a character, and the intrinsic value of portraying a character that mirrors the player in depth and meaning.
Pardon my pedantry.
After reading the first two chapters of John Harper ‘s beautiful Lady Blackbird I noticed the character sheets had…
After reading the first two chapters of John Harper ‘s beautiful Lady Blackbird I noticed the character sheets had an affinity for letting players re-roll dice in certain contexts. I got to thinking, why doesn’t this mechanic appear in PbtA? Is it the disconnect between the fiction and the mechanic, the implication that something has been reset? Or is it to further emphasize the finality of the moves you make and the gravity of the consequences?