We did Stars and Wishes at the end of the last session. One of the players shared that he enjoys that "the world is on a clock" and how that adds tension, meaningful choices, and a planning element to the game. The settings has a dangerous eldrich storm roll through every 5-9 days. They need to time their expeditions and projects around these storms. Sometimes the storms leave new problems for them to solve. Sometimes when they are out, something goes wrong, and they are worried about getting back in time. At the moment, this is a need to gather resources several days from shelter. What I wanted to share is that this world clock is powerfully synergistic with the proactive structure. The decisions of what goals to pursue next turn into a planning not just on sequence of the goals, but on how much time is left and how confident they are in their estimate of the next storm [see code]. It is creating both a player and story need to understand the storm so they can accurately predict time for the next storm. It is creating a motivation to use the hexploration rules to speed travel and make it more predictable. The player's comment was that it is so much more than wanting to get back to town for a ball two weeks away. Context: The storm is a cuthulu-ian eldrich being trapped in between planes. The time between storms and the duration of the storms is a tap-code spelling out messages. When the broke the code they had "_are yo" [Who are you?] They had a lot of confidence the next storm was a u [8 days, 10 hours]. Right now they only have "Re_" and have a lot of uncertainty of what is next. It also created a goal of getting access to records from the academy of prior storms.

I wanted to drop a hello and introduce myself. Im an old school gamer. Started RPG's in 1984 (yeah im that old) with Champions, the Hero System. Had to use a calculator to make my first character. Fun Times. Then I got Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness and started running it in 1987 and have been running games ever since. Ive played more games than I can remember. Different systems and all have been fun. In 1997 I had the opportunity to manager and run a Comic and Games store and did so for 3 years. I found Kult and Fading Suns them. I had already been playing World of Darkness in addition to Palladium games, (such as TMNT). Since then I use Palladium rules set to run my own world, but still enjoy a few other systems, such as Fading Suns, Deadlands and 2nd Edition World of Darkness. I hope my experience can help other in need and look forward to what I can share and the friends I will make.

I run games at my local high school. So, so many of the players (students) just sit in front of me and stare at me with dead eyes. These kids are good kids, too! And I don't want to fall into the boomerism of "kids these days are addicted to their phones", but it's like none of them even want to do anything, they just wait for me to say something, try and make a Marvel-esque "zinger", and turn the game into a shitty comedy routine. I gave them a goal, I gave them like 10 different places to go or people to talk to, just as a beginning, and they didn't do anything. The campaign is ending tomorrow, but does anyone have advice for next year's game?