thread: 2006-03-06 : Unpopular Idea #2: Punish the Loser
On 2006-03-07, Michael S. Miller wrote:
In With Great Power... I punish the loser in the short-term—in both game mechanical and fictional ways—but reward them in a long-term game-mechanical way. In the short term, you lose cards from your hand, your opponent wins their Stakes, and your opponent chooses which of your Aspects suffer. In the long term, you take away some of the GM's advantages (wild cards and such).
I've found that presenting the players with the choice of how to lose results in really gripping play.
