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Hi, sorry for the delay... have been away of the RPG world in the last few weeks... thanks for all this good advice... I will definitely use some environmental / mother nature calamities with them when we resume playing (hopefully sooner than later)...

Hey Stephen, yes man, I will accept your offer to get more personalized advice... I've just been off of the RPG world for a bit, while transitioning jobs and organizing to get the group back playing after even tighter restrictions in our city related to the pandemic... but thank you very much...

Hey @Stephan Hornick, just want to let you know that this is REALLY good and useful content! I am enjoying a lot! The post #1 had great examples, but this second one has even better ones! It's the formation of a very rich pool of ideas to give my players the feeling they are facing an actual...

Hadn't thought about that. But now that you mentioned, there are lots of possibilities: the most agile/skilled fighter, the most precise/accurate shooter, the deepest pit, the sharpest blade, the coldest/hottest place, and so on... I can see how it could easily turn out into a specific mission...

Yeah! I've seen the 2 seasons that are available so far and got some ideas from there! Good show, smart storytelling, insightful & sarcastic writing.

Really appreciated all your suggestions. Particularly the environment and bystanders constraints... time pressure can also be helpful. I am not familiar with Blades in the Dark, but I am guessing the mechanics for that "progress clock" are not related to the passage of our actual time off game...

Hello, I am GMing a SUPERS short campaign for my six wonderful players who love to come up with the most “optimized” powers they can get (including digging the internet for ideas)... So, I wanted to challenge them, but with something else beyond creating equivalent NPCs to fight them (we are...

I totally loved your application of this concept! For my next campaign, I won't overwhelm the player with all 7 questions (they are really NOT as story-driven as I am), but i will FOR SURE talk to them about the first three, and gently require that, at least, the first one to be part of their...

Yes! I've had that experience. In my most recent case, I was the "lead" DM and my friend helped me with three main aspects: 1) Planning sessions: so good, to have someone to talk about, brainstorm/inspire/refine as @BenS said 2) Running combats: he played all the NPCs/monsters and I was free to...

Great idea! This is something I have been spending a bit of my time lately... A thing I need to share here is an online course about Storytelling from Pixar. They made it available for free at the beginning of the pandemic. It has 6 chapters; the last three are less relevant to RPGs, but the...

I like this approach, because it expands my perspective in regards to what I (as the GM) can do to promote my character player's arcs. With my group of players, I think I am closer to "hope" than to "believe" territory, but I am certainly taking my time to account for that in my adventure...

That's another important variable... the passage of time and also multiple/intense conflicts are the "natural" way to drive change... otherwise it can feel just forced indeed. Thus, souring which should be a satisfying ending.

This is a much more richer and significant use of downtime than the tables presented in the 5e's DMG, for example. Particularly useful on longer campaigns.

That's a new one for me... I had to google PDQ to get "Prose Descriptive Qualities"... They all look like interesting narrative-oriented games, but I think that, at this time, I am more inclined to keep M&M 3e; probably I will take on most of the "crunchy work" of character creation on behalf of...

That's what I got from my little research as well...

Yeah, that threw me off a bit... I have a hard time to see my players doing that, much less playing on that level of improv...

I watched a video with a short session of Fate Core featuring Will Wheaton, narrated by one of the game designers. "TableTop: Wil Wheaton Plays FATE CORE w/ Felicia Day, John Rogers, & Ryan Macklin" => https://youtu.be/NOFXtAHg7vU Has anyone seen this? I am wondering if it's a fair...

Yes, hopefully my players will get there... or not... I was reflecting on this and the recent discussions about Player/Gamer Types, and it feels like it takes someone really into the "Story" bucket to care enough about this whole "arc thing"... But doing some more research I found a couple of...

I will take that with a grain of salt... hahahaha But it got me interested to at least look up to see what this system has to offer... I just read the 2-page comics on FATE recommended by @Gedece and I really loved them! Such a great, simple and easy way to give a general explanation of a...

This sounded like a cool feature... I will definitely dig deeper... I was reading the core description from their SRD website, but will also look for some videos or podcasts to get an overview and maybe a bit of a demo...