[Diaspora] Lenny Balsera talking about compels

[David Dunham]

Mark:

> Mr. Balsera provides some pretty insightful elucidation about how  
> compels work. I found this pretty interesting, and wanted to share. I  
> tried to get him to comment on Diaspora, but he refused to bite. :)


A few thoughts: his examples seem to be relatively strategic, while Diaspora takes a more tactical view.

Or perhaps it's that things are very different when you're in one of the mini-games (which are by their nature tactical).

It also seems like he's diverted a bit from baseline SotC, which is also a bit more tactical.

Finally: my players haven't picked the most compellable aspects in my current game. I was trying to do a compel in the middle of combat to recharge a player's depleted stock, and it was hard to find something that would work.

P.S. It's way too hard to find things in the rule book! There was no entry for "Compel" in the TOC, and no index. Good thing there's an SRD! (A PDF would be even better, but I'm sure you've heard that before.)

David Dunham   
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