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aramis erak reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Tell me about your experiences running games at a FLGS with
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aramis erak replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.I gave players 2d of rerolls in character gen in Traveller/MegaTraveller since the late 80's... some saved them for play. I didn't...
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aramis erak reacted to Weiley31's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I can only have a say in this topic when I think of Mechanics, and as somebody already mentioned before, Advantage/Disadvantage...
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aramis erak replied to the thread Tell me about your experiences running games at a FLGS.I've been running games off and on for my FLGS since 1990 or so. The TSR Retail Play program at first. Then some LUG Trek demos, and...
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aramis erak replied to the thread Describe your last rpg session in 5 words.Sun Daggerheart AoU Avenge Undead Prince, fight ribbets.
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aramis erak reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread Crunchy Tactical RPG like 4e/pf2e but for Urban Fantasy? with
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WoD Combat was what I was thinking of earlier in the thread when I said the prior WoD wasn't automatically a poor combat emulation game. -
aramis erak reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Reaction tables aren't (in my view) about reducing GM workload in generating content. They're an action resolution tool (if the players...
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aramis erak reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I think similarity of PC and NPC stats/builds simply isn't an old school vs. modern discussion. It's more closely related to...
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aramis erak replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.Classic Traveller intends NPCs to be generated as PCs. That's 1977. That's pretty old school... Supplement 1: 1001 Characters (1979)...
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aramis erak reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
To me, those seem like selling points of not-old-school games. Old-school to me is, by contrast: --- story-emergent, i.e. most if not...
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aramis erak replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.Mostly; they're expensive to invoke, like fate Aspects, but without the negative use and ability to earn the metacurrency in RAW. D&D...
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aramis erak reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Here I disagree. I think that as with many things in Daggerheart there are multiple reasons they aren't always on. From a simple...
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aramis erak replied to the thread Would you purchase an expansion, from a different system than you use, to adapt for your preferred system? If yes why?.I rarely do this. Hell, I seldom use Third Party Products (3PP). I've been using a bunch for Daggerheart... and have been contemplating...
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aramis erak replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.Being blunt: I'm saying the OSR shouldn't be considered Modern as a clade, and few games using the OSR lables really do much for the...
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aramis erak replied to the thread What rpg system would you use for a 60+ session fantasy campaign?.I also found RM/SM char gen a hurdle for my players. Of the 20-some I got to Character Gen, only 7 liked the result, and three of those...