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Autumnal reacted to Umbran's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with
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I think you misinterpret the issue in a maximally negative light. It has nothing to do with a zero-sum game. When you go out to... -
Autumnal reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
I was thinking about this thread cycling home yesterday evening, and was puzzled by what seems to be an assumption made in many of the...
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Autumnal reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
The notion that there is some sort of trade off between player and GM enjoyment of the game - on some posited spectrum from "dancing...
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Autumnal reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
I'm sorry to hear that, but ironically the only time I've seen it matters in play for one of the "classic Tolkien races" is with a dwarf...
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Autumnal reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
We still haven't given a reason why RenleyRenfield exists. Or for that matter Neonchameleon. Indeed the only person round here who is in...
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Autumnal reacted to zakael19's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
I'm not even sure what this is anyway. There's something really fun about a player going "oh heck, your questions and framing took me...
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Autumnal reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
Just to put things into perspective I'm simultaneously running two Daggerheart games right now for two groups with no one else in common...
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Autumnal reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
Well, I'd suggest it got ignored because some people don't agree with it. Once you start seeing nonhuman species as more analogous to...
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Autumnal reacted to Umbran's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
I GM a lot, yes. Hey. If you want to get anything out of this discussion, you're gonna have to stop projecting your own emotional...
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Autumnal reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
And I'll answer the same way I did earlier: because a lot of them don't share your concerns and just want a bit of color and look...
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Autumnal reacted to RenleyRenfield's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with
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I want to add to this as a bit of a digression, because.. reasons. :P I ran a game of Forgotten Realms where there was some reason for... -
Autumnal reacted to Umbran's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
So, there's something here we can pick at. The genre of fantasy, overall, is broad. The genre of easy-entry, psuedo-medieval...
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Autumnal reacted to doctorbadwolf's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
Literally every option is most commonly chosen because the player just likes it, and everything else is nothing more than post hoc...
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Autumnal reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
OK. If this is only RP settings I'm citing WFRP as being better thematically than almost any Sci-Fi RPG I can think of with the possible...
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Autumnal reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with Like.
I don't know why it should be depressing that some people are very casual with the hobby; there are plenty that are with any other...