Don’t only tell the GM what your character does, also tell the GM what you are trying to accomplish.

Frightened is not a mechanical imposition, it doesn’t take away player agency. It’s a THREAT.

Design games the hard way. Learn more, make better games, and have more fun doing it.

The size of the index card, and the width of the tip of a sharpie drastically constrains the amount of text you can put into one note. The extreme brevity you must write with to fit your idea on a card forces you to think very clearly about what actually belongs on each card.