Jason Corley oh yeah, that definitely happens. I think if the GM is badly tone-deaf to the table’s vibe, if they’re just sitting there waiting for the players to make a mechanically appropropriate decision, that’s a whole ‘nother problem.

I ran into that at my Timewatch table at Rincon last month. I stared and stared at my character sheet hoping it would reveal some path forward, because the fiction was so poorly set up that there were no obvious handles to grab. That’s totally a pacing/GMing thing, can’t really blame the system (although it’s tempting, because Gumshoe 😛 ).