Three Stratagems: The Puzzle of Combat
I have been playing a lot of Age of Iron (my WIP medieval fantasy TTRPG), thanks to my " Black Company " campaign continuing to go quite well. I haven't posted and session reports of that since transitioning to a West Marches campaign, since this is partially an experiment in letting my players do the session reporting (in their Company Book) and test their note taking skills. It has drawn out a lot of development effort and game design thought from me though, and I have several topics I'd like to blog about. Today, combat tactics! One of my GM habits I have worked for years to curb (with middling success) is feeding ideas to the players. It can be hard to sit quietly and watch someone struggle when you have a good idea! Having the GM backseat gaming for you is rarely fun though, and at that point they're just setting up dominoes for themself to knock over. The better way is to show your players things they can do and then give them the freedom to adopt and appr...
