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aramis erak replied to the thread Daggerheart Sold Out in Two Weeks, Has Three-Year Plan in Place.I can say I've had combats where I didn't get to do anything becuase I had no fear and they were not even missing. And others where a... -
aramis erak replied to the thread How do you define "Heartbreaker?".A game, clearly a clone of an existing one as its base ruleset, which makes claims to fix the original's mechanics, and gains almost no...
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aramis erak reacted to Umbran's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with
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You can reskin the entire game, sure. The result will not bear any resemblance to what happens in Pride and Prejudice, however... -
aramis erak reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I agree with @hawkeyefan here. There is a clear process in classic D&D: the GM maps and keys a dungeon; the movement of the PCs through...
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aramis erak replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.from my point of view, as a frequent user of maps and tokens in D&D since 1981... Movement is the single most mechanical of those. It's...
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aramis erak replied to the thread Art, is it important to you, does it help your roleplaying?.A single halfway decent picture of a monster beats about 250 words of descriptive text for me. My players like having both...
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aramis erak reacted to mearls's post in the thread Vincent Baker on narrativist RPGing, then and now with Like.
What I find interesting about breaking games up into -isms or factions is that his break down of narrativism points to a lot of good...
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aramis erak reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Vincent Baker on narrativist RPGing, then and now with Like.
Yeah, I agree, narrativist play and 'narrative mechanics' aren't the same thing.
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aramis erak reacted to Reynard's post in the thread Daggerheart Sold Out in Two Weeks, Has Three-Year Plan in Place with Like.
My oversimplified assessment is: I can't think of anything I can do as GM with 5E that I can't do as well or better in DH. That doesn't...
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aramis erak replied to the thread Do you game with other ENWorlders?.two or three members here I've gamed with in the past... But I can't be certain.
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aramis erak replied to the thread Daggerheart Sold Out in Two Weeks, Has Three-Year Plan in Place.As have I. My least descriptive player is contributing more, making decisions based upon story more... And most are mentioning that...
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aramis erak reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread Daggerheart Sold Out in Two Weeks, Has Three-Year Plan in Place with
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I'd consider it not unfair but not quite accurate; I'd call 5e a middle of the road trad game and Daggerheart a relatively light trad... -
aramis erak reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread Daggerheart Sold Out in Two Weeks, Has Three-Year Plan in Place with Like.
The thing here is that I'd say it's an awesome system for a table full of GMs, flexible players, or new roleplayers. New roleplayers...
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aramis erak reacted to TheHand's post in the thread Daggerheart Sold Out in Two Weeks, Has Three-Year Plan in Place with Like.
It was the first rpg game that I had to get on a wait list to buy (from my FLGS). It wasn’t until at least a month or so later that they...
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aramis erak replied to the thread Daggerheart Sold Out in Two Weeks, Has Three-Year Plan in Place.Amazon ran out. Books-a-million ran out (and lied about it until after the money was collected). WalMart ran out. Barns and Noble ran...