If you haven’t already, you may want to pick Mark Diaz Truman’s brain about BitD down times. in our definitely-still-alive-and-not-at-all-dead game, down times were probably my favourite part.

From what I could tell from the player’s side, he just ran normal free play scenes for each player (sometimes with other PCs joining, sometimes not) except that we all knew that we were safe from major consequences up until we made our roll. Scenes would often continue on after the roll, but then we were in actual free play and everything was on the table.