Andrew Medeiros I think I need to consciously and vocally restate to my players during play that 6es are misses and not failures. So that I’m constantly reminding myself. 

I mean the game(s) is/are perfectly functional when you focus on straight up failures but this gives the MC a lot more room.

I think the one PbtA skill I continually need to work at is how best to calibrate my responses as MC. My Dreamation SotI game was juuuust about right, I think, which is why we were able to have both a one-shot blood opera and a really sweet happy ending.