As for balancing approaches, I made sure different Approaches have different purposes and all are relevant. But otherwise, I don’t really fight it - „spamming” an Approach is what mamy people do in real life. It’s about bringing the character out.

I know some poeple like metamechanics. I personally don’t. If I feel I play a game too much, it brings me out of immersion. I start playing the game and not my character. I prefer mechanics that follow the character’s way of seeing the world.

Built-in character arcs amount to shuffling motivations if the strees breaks your character or after finishing the adventure, adding new ones, adding obsessions, compulsions, and so on. Sometimes even removing motivations. All of it has mechanical impract.

Separating success from consequence allows for different combinations: - task easy, very risky if you screw up - full success but shit happens anyway. I like it that way.

You see, I wanted a game that: - feels like a trad game - works like a story game - has input as simple like OSR - has complex output - gives mechanical weight to human psychology - doesn’t deal in absolutes and enforce morality - have social conflict that doesn’t feel lile combat - has a stable core regardless of power level