Forum: Infection

Unless I'm reading it wrong, a planet can go from personal experience to ignorance. I'm having a very difficult time imagining how this could occur...

Can instructors instruct classes instead of just one person at a time? Like say... with class sizes equal to the exponent of the instructors...

(I'm assuming that during downtime, a (N)PC or 2ic with Instruction can act as an instructor to any character his player sees fit.) The book...

Situation: the players phase intent is "remove Victor from power aka he doesn't get to roll to help the Usurpation phase disposition". But halfway...

I hate to nitpick, but we're about to start a new campaign and I'm having some trouble reconciling two parts of the BE book on the scene economy. ...

Hello, On page 341 is says this: "A GM does not have to hand dice back and forth between his figures of note and their relationships. So long as...

I was asking about activating factions; luke weighed in that having a faction gives you lots of narrative control. Paul B said this was such an...

Scenes are very precious, I get that it's supposed to feel tight. But circles feels very tight! In my game, I want an NPC to begin making moves...

Just looking at the numbers for a minute, activating factions seems like a costly diversion from getting your enemy's disposition down. I suppose it...

Thinking about the strategic elements of planetary conquest outlined in the Fire section of Bloodstained stars, I'm wondering what other readers...

So, I've been playing a lot of the new Red Faction videogame recently, and the idea of a game about a worldwide revolution against an oppressive...

In our last maneuver, thanks to a good roll and a previous successful Pin, we generated a LOT of downtime -- 21 months! (7 months for GM side) ...

Under the Practice rules, can you stack up multiple tests for the same skill during the same time period? (e.g. for a skill with a 1-month cycle,...

I am just about to start a running BE game. I am trying to get my head around what to "do" during the player's colour and interstitial scenes. As...

I'm playing my first BE game right now, and we've just completed our first Maneuver (we're in Infiltration right now, playing the Humans, in a rather...

Quick question, I noticed reading through the infection chapter again that the GM gets one set of color and interstitials per Figure of Note, but it...

Thor's Note: Split from this thread Not to completely sidetrack, but this brought up a point I've been curious about. If the Human side blows...

There's mention about scenes developing organically, for instance an interstitial scene becoming a building or conflict scene. If the player who...

Thor's Note: Split from this thread So that means: "add the +2 one time" and go for it again in the next phase"?