u/BenPortsCenter

When I run a longform MOTW story with an arc, I usually like to start with the Hunters meeting each other for the first time. They're not an established team yet - circumstances push them together, and they become a team during the course of the first Mystery.

Then, after either the first or second Mystery, we talk about what the Team Playbook is, if one is even applicable. Sometimes there are Team Playbooks that work, sometimes there aren't - in the latter instance, we can usually Frankenstein a Team Playbook out of the existing ones.

I'm curious as to how other Keepers handle these sort of situations. What's your preference? Do you start with a ready-made Team and a Playbook ready to go? Do you pre-choose a Team Playbook and bend the narrative toward it? Do you avoid Team Playbooks entirely? I'd love to know how you all go about handling this.

Hello! So I've run the game for a while, but I'm always of two kinds about how to handle 7-9s for Act Under Pressure. The book says to give them one of the three options - worse outcome, hard choice, or price to pay - and also to follow the Keeper Agenda and principles to determine the outcome. But the example the book gives seems to suggest the Keeper is outlining all the possible outcomes and letting the Hunter decide which one they want.

There are certainly pros and cons to both methods, and various podcasts I've listened to have taken both approaches. The Crit Show, at least in the first dozen-or-so episodes, has the Keeper giving choice to the Hunter. In TAZ: Amnesty, Griffin seems to switch between picking the outcome himself letting the Hunter choose (though when he does this he doesn't provide the specific outcome until they choose).

My gut favors Griffin's approach, going with what works best for the story/scene in the moment, so that's what I've been doing. But I'd love to hear how other Keepers' approach this roll.