thread: 2009-04-06 : Fistfightville
On 2009-04-07, Jenskot wrote:
In Dogs,
Who gets to say if you can use a specific Trait?
Or a specific thing that isn't on your character sheet?
When we play, we use the Belongings rules for, "if your character has the high ground, you get +2."
Higher ground is a thing. Information is a thing.
If it is described in play, if everyone believes it, then it can be used. We break it down that the players decide if it is believable, the GM decides its dice based on the description.
Sometimes we agree that a thing can only be used once per game in this way. Or that to use something described, it has to have been described in a previous scene.
Other times we don't predetermine our Traits. We leave them undefined like Relationships.
I've found the more we make the player's descriptions meaningful, the more we care about stakes.
