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bsss replied to the thread [Old school] I can't deal with inventory.Yeah, it's a genre thing for me. If the focus of the game is dungeon survival, treasure hunting, wilderness exploration, etc., part of... -
bsss replied to the thread What was your 2nd RPG?.Big Eyes, Small Mouth 1e. I loved it back then, and in retrospect, it was even better than I realized.
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bsss replied to the thread D&D General What D&D Would You Use For A Dungeon Focused Campaign?.I guess I am honor-bound from my previous answer to say 13th Age, but I would also like 4e, or 3.5e if I'm blinded by nostalgia. True20...
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bsss replied to the thread What Non-D&D Would You Use For A Dungeon Focused Campaign.Do you consider 13th Age a clear derivative? (I understand why one would, but I figured I'd shoot my shot.) If allowed, 13th Age. A...
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bsss replied to the thread D&D General Poll: How many Role Playing Games do you play besides D&D?.Uh, let's see, recent history + con games... Cypher System 13th Age Savage Worlds FATE RuneQuest Stealing Stories for the Devil The...
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bsss replied to the thread GMs: What is your prep to play ratio?.Also this. I have an idea of what the next couple steps are likely to be, and I'm just as often surprised by the direction the players...
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bsss replied to the thread GMs: What is your prep to play ratio?.Focusing my answer on what I've been running mostly regularly for the longest: in my scifi space game in Cypher System, they are highly...
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bsss replied to the thread GMs: What is your prep to play ratio?.Assuming we're not counting things like thinking about the plot (which just happens ad hoc whenever I have idle cycles in the ol' gray...
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bsss replied to the thread Gaming Cons Have Changed (I'm Old).They are more laid back about tickets at Gamehole Con compared to Gen Con, having attended both (Gen Con for decades until recently, and...
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bsss replied to the thread Hours actually playing RPGs, non-D&D?.I feel like 60 hours/year is a pretty low bar to cross, such that I safely crossed it and my free time for any hobby is at a premium...
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bsss replied to the thread Call of Cthulhu General Thread [+].I never ran a terribly successful CoC campaign for terribly long, but I introduced CoC to my group by running The Haunting and it was...
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If we're sharing resources, more people should know about... Darkest of the Hillside Thickets! They're a heavily HPL-themed Canadian...
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bsss replied to the thread What TTRPGs Excel At Not Having Combat?.So, continuing this riff, there's "Fiasco: Transatlantic", a playset for Fiasco. (I have not played this particular playset product...
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bsss replied to the thread What TTRPGs Excel At Not Having Combat?.I was going to mention Fiasco specifically as an example of where dialing in the OP's desired amount of action resolution might be...
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bsss replied to the thread What TTRPGs Excel At Not Having Combat?.Still lots of good pulls in the thread for this. To put a word in for Cypher System again, they semi-recently put out a post-apocalypse...
