I don't think there's one answer to that. To me it depends on the context of the clock and what's your plan for pacing. Also it will be part of your style that you just have to find for yourself, what works for you
(Cyberpunk examples)
- Tripping guards suspicion on-site: one small clock
Consequence is not an alarm yet but from now on everything that has to do with guards can have lower position - Tripping alarms for the whole building: bigger clock
Or don't set up such clock at all if everything going completely south doesn't fit your overarching plot plans - Mafia responds to characters asking around: small clock
They have reputation to uphold, they can't have someone nosing around in visible way Consequence:- someone who said something gets in trouble, making others harder to work with (lower position)
- Mafia learns who they are (if that would be serious problem for the whole run, I'd make it a bigger clock)
- They get set up and have an unplanned meeting with a bunch of enforcers
- It gets so obvious that they get contacted by this group's opponents and the situation is stacked that characters either comply with demands or will have very hard time completing the run
- Police/corp responds to characters doing runs against the corp
- If you plan the corp to be present in the plot, make it a big clock to fill it after a few runs
- Or make it small to force the characters to manage their footprint from the early stage (lower position when doing things the corp can piece together)
- If it makes sense that corp would first send police after them, make it two small clocks
- If you don't care about the corp, make it a short clock, to hopefully resolve it during this session
If they manage to not fill it, after all, keep the clock for the future. The next time you feel it's going too well for them, you can fill this clock instead of more current one. Suddenly bringing old grudges into the mix
- If you plan the corp to be present in the plot, make it a big clock to fill it after a few runs
So depending on what you want to do it's either bigger or smaller clock, with consequences either in fiction or mechanical
Request: if you decide to add new blogs, could you also make a post about it on your blog, please?
After some time I discovered that I'd prefer narrower choice of blogs, so I copied your selection and manually created my own list. But I'd still like to leverage your moderation, so if you wrote about it on your blog, I would know to check them out