System

[Wannabe writer]

[Rob Lang]

I think players really add to this sort of table-tension. My players LOVE poking fun at each other and I think a "pile of complications" is the sort of comedy that writes itself. I've noticed also that when players have to give in lots of tokens/gems/beads there is a joyous "cashing in" like when you're playing poker with chips.

Some of my players would not like to build up complications and work hard to keep them at a minimum. Others would build up an ENORMOUS cache of the things to the horror of everyone else.