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Benjamin Olson reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread What is the single best science fiction novel of all time? with
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Benjamin Olson reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread Moya, ‘the World’s First Biomimetic Robot’ Emulates Human Features Down to Body Temperature with Like.
"DroidUp plans to release Moya commercially by the end of the year, for a starting price of 1.2 million yuan ($173,000). But before you...
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Benjamin Olson reacted to Seramus's post in the thread How Complex Do You Prefer Your TTRPG Systems In General with Like.
Yeah, it creates a strange sort of "implied to be worse" reverse engineering the DM has to do. Everyone can try to disarm. The...
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Benjamin Olson reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread How Complex Do You Prefer Your TTRPG Systems In General with Like.
My version of "disarm" might be to: 1) include it either as one of several/many predefined combat maneuvers, or as just one example of a...
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Benjamin Olson replied to the thread How Complex Do You Prefer Your TTRPG Systems In General.Clearly it can. I just don't think doing so makes a game simpler. When something people are likely going to want to try in their "you...
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Benjamin Olson replied to the thread How Complex Do You Prefer Your TTRPG Systems In General.I voted 4, but not all complexity is built the same. Simplifications can lead to making system mastery harder. In 5e D&D, for an...
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Benjamin Olson replied to the thread D&D's Obelisk Plotline Was Supposed to Be Resolved in Vecna: Eve of Ruin.If there was a planned metaplot seeded in multiple books its a shame it didn't at least get a resolution, but I don't think it was a...
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Benjamin Olson reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D's Obelisk Plotline Was Supposed to Be Resolved in Vecna: Eve of Ruin with Like.
This article is very interesting. I had always suspected that 5e’s big-honking-adventure books were backdoor setting guides. Tyranny of...
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Benjamin Olson reacted to Reynard's post in the thread Who Should Make The Next Star Wars TTRPG, And What Should It Look Like? with Like.
I think it is a failure of imagination to want a TTRPG experience to be exactly like some other medium. TTRPGs are their own thing, and...
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Benjamin Olson replied to the thread Who Should Make The Next Star Wars TTRPG, And What Should It Look Like?.Right, because shopping and comparable mundane concerns are not a big part action-adventure movies in general. And that's fine for an...
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Benjamin Olson replied to the thread Who Should Make The Next Star Wars TTRPG, And What Should It Look Like?.Very much agree. Star Wars has amazing production design and it's a core part of the franchise's appeal. People want specific weapons...
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Benjamin Olson reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread Who Should Make The Next Star Wars TTRPG, And What Should It Look Like? with Like.
But those are huge elements of the movies? The scene showing the technical strategy of how to destroy the Death Star is not only iconic...
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Benjamin Olson reacted to Justice and Rule's post in the thread Who Should Make The Next Star Wars TTRPG, And What Should It Look Like? with Like.
A little late to the party, but... Put me down as a guy who really loved the FFG game. It had some problems with certain kinds of uses...
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This whole post x10. Many folks run effective campaigns with published WotC modules, but even so they end up fighting the thing more...
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Benjamin Olson replied to the thread D&D Pinball Machine.I don't know. What makes him so good?