Flashback Moves
Most roleplaying games take place linearly, but some embrace the tropes of fiction and lean into narrative tricks like flashbacks. For instance, in a movie, one of the main characters will say to the others that they have a plan, and then the next scene will flash forward. You won’t learn what that plan is until later, as you see it unfold or as you see a flashback. A great advantage of flashbacks in RPGs is that the availability of the flashback short-circuits the analysis-paralysis that can occur when planning […]
