[Pierce Inverarity]

Cali, thanks for a brilliant review of one of the two indie games that really clicked with me (the other being TSoY).

I was going to run Hero's Banner on two occasions, and each time I ended up not doing it, partly for reasons you describe.

One would have been for a group of four moderately experienced players, and I was daunted by the prospect of weaving their motivations into a coherent thread--on the fly, in game, all of the time. That seems also to have been the underlying problem of the playtest by Clinton Nixon and his group on the Forge. How to balance out screen time, how to synchronize the advancement of PCs, how to have goals be opposed but not destructively so... For this you need players who are constantly with it, AND who are constantly cooperative.

That said, I love the idea, I love the setting, and I might get used to the "generational fast-forward," all-drama-all-of-the-time playstyle.