By way of explanation… currently, Outcomes have two functions: declaring the player’s narrative intent, and signaling the end of their part in the scene. The idea is that the actual outcome itself — and its consequences — will play out in the next scene. So if a player says their character picks the lock but chooses the “Botch” outcome, the narrator uses the establishment of the next scene to describe how it all goes wrong.

Having a way to declare that a player is “done” for the current scene is important because of the asynchronous nature of Storium. We need a final decisive action to drive users towards so that gameplay doesn’t bog down from a lack of clear forward progress.

But again, that’s just an explanation of how it works now, and why. Feedback from multiple parties (now including yourself!) indicates that this part of the design isn’t quite working. We’re looking at new ideas, such as cleaving the narrative choice from the “I’m done” declaration.

What do YOU think it should do?? Thanks a ton for the feedback!