We went back to figure out why the Social Encounters draft wasn’t landing for Deighton. Instead of defending it, we asked him to just talk through how he’d actually run the scene himself — no rules, just instinct.
What came out of that changed the whole conversation, and D realized partway through that he’d misread what we were even trying to build. Full breakdown over on Patreon.
Part 3 next: what the fix actually looks like.