Oracle of Tea and Dreams

Despite having played a handful of Ironsworn sessions already, I'm still somewhat confused by Moves, Progress Trackers, Debilities and other statuses, and something called a Scene Challenge. As mentioned in my previous post, I have a fairly straightforward plan: I want to go through the entire rulebook with a mission to test out all of these principles that confuse me using actual play. So here we go!  Moves & Progress Trackers My first test actual play resulted in a few adventurers completing a journey progress track, and I rolled the Reach Your Destination progress move when they were at a progress score of 6. To some extent, this progress move felt like, "I already narrated their entire journey, so it feels pointless to roll for them to complete the journey." And when I got a weak hit as the result, I didn't feel any sense of inspiration by the introduction of complications to their success, instead I felt like it was unnecessarily burdening their success. Was ...

When I'm learning a new skill or hobby, I often come up with better ways to explain complex learnings - and I confidently assume that I will continue to have good explanations for the people like me that are curious about this new skill. Surely, if I am a good explainer-of-things at a beginner level, I'll be a masterful explainer-of-things at an advanced level! I think to myself... The beginner level comes and goes, the intermediate level progresses on, and soon enough I start trying to explain things to the curious and find that all my wise learnings have been lost. It's probably accurate to say I've incorporated the learnings into my mindset so fully that I'm now blind to the dissonance I used to feel as a beginner.  So, I'm going to try something I've never done before and share my learnings at the beginner level.  I've been getting into a new hobby (ah, such a timeless statement) called Solo Roleplaying. This happened because I'm a big fan of fan...