This is pretty amazing stuff. I’ve been leaning more and more toward risk driven results and GMing, and this snaps a lot of things into place.
At first I just liked the idea: the ref doesn’t roll any dice. I don’t know why, but knowing myself as I do I suspect it was just the novelty of it. I frequently ref games and I am always rolling. What if I didn’t? Was there a reason I had to roll?
My first experiment with player-side rollers was in an early test of some ideas for a second edition of Diaspora. I did it in the most obvious fashion: rather than have the ref roll for non-player characters, the ref would just set a difficulty value. It bombed. It was boring as hell. I shelved the idea.
Then I played some Powered By The Apocalypse games. And it works there. Hmm. What’s the difference?
Well one difference is deeply systemic: in Fate the game works by simulating everything with the same structure. Characters are roughly the same…
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Glad you found value in my little screed! The games have been really great — Soft Horizon is shaping up very nicely.
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Yeah, it’s good stuff, I’m enjoying it a lot.
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