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This past week I kept bouncing between Chapter 1 and 14, two worldbuilding chapters of #GodfleshRPG. I'd been stuck on the rules chapters, trying to write them without grounding them in the world. So I went back to my playtest assumptions and started sharpening the design 🔱 #WIPWednesday #TTRPG

Maybe it was a living animal once. Now the metal in its body pushes outward, a horrific mix of flesh and metal. It's a Terror: it feeds on fear. It stalks its prey, hides among the statues, and then it strikes.

Then the stats snagged. Threats in the game have Limits: named tracks you fill in to defeat them. But naming a limit 'corrosion' or 'fear' describes your approach, while 'Metal Shell' defines the threat's own structure, clarifying its nature.

That led me to reconsider. Once every limit named the Threat's aspect, the term 'limit' no longer fit. These are the load-bearing points, the ones you knock out to bring the whole thing down, so I renamed them Keystones.