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AbdulAlhazred reacted to Jahydin's post in the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm with
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Just finished reading it and loved what I saw. There's a certain creepy otherworldliness to ancient fairy tales and myths I think modern... -
AbdulAlhazred reacted to Piperken's post in the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm with Like.
Glad to read you picked this up! I've read other ppls' experiences with the Realm mapping procedure, they've all pretty much liked it in...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm.I think it is, perhaps, difficult if you have not really analyzed the makeup of RPGs and the structure of play in a clear way. I find...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm.I think you are misunderstanding me, that I am not being clear. I am not holding up D&D '74 as a ' bar' at all. It's an example of a...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm.Yeah, I am just observing that many RPGs are highly incomplete. I think @pemerton has mentioned Cthulhu Dark, which is just very basic...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm with Like.
I think that what I'm trying to identify with the phrase 'conceptual horizon' is very much involved, at least generally in how people...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm with Like.
As I posted upthread, my favourite knight errant game is Prince Valiant. So for me, this game has to clear a high bar. On paper, I think...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to SteveC's post in the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm with Like.
People have been talking a lot about "D&D Killers" as in "is this the game the next D&D killer?" And I think, in a broad sense, there...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm.I don't think 'Conceptual Horizon' or anything like that is involved. A game text is a text containing the instructions for how to play...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm.Perhaps, I wouldn't die on that hill, but in my experience MOST RPGs, particularly more traditional ones, make HUGE assumptions about...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm.OK, so more like PbtAs where there is no real concept of 'difficulty' beyond "did you roll against a good stat bonus" which MB also...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm with Like.
Thanks for the link to that blog! I agree with the blogger that there are some gaps in the rules, but actually don't think the Myths...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread Mythic Bastionland - initial impressions, and making a Realm.I would expect that you could consider impact similar to BitD effect. You could think of leverage as similar to position. intent and...
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AbdulAlhazred reacted to HatWearingFool's post in the thread Why do you play games other than D&D? with Like.
Basicallly I think D&D for many editions has only been good to play “D&D”. Which is fun, but I also like to play other things. And I...
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AbdulAlhazred replied to the thread Why do you play games other than D&D?.I'd venture to guess that your 'any' is a pretty narrow range of the full diversity of what is out there. Like, if you include 5e, BitD...