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You also don’t need to like, jump scare players to have a good horror game with plenty of “oh screw you” moments and shudder inducing... -
Yeah. It’s far more about tone and mood and punishing mechanics than actually, honestly scared players sitting at your table. You don’t...
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Campbell reacted to BrokenTwin's post in the thread Critical Role Announces Age of Umbra Daggerheart Campaign, Starting May 29th with
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I mean, the ur example of grimdark (W40K) is LOADED with named characters who'll never actually die, so I don't know why this surprises... -
Campbell reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Hey. A little less universalization here.
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Campbell replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..GMs having a mental model they develop and evaluate is only more like our moment-to-moment existence as long as we are dealing with...
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Oh, I really don't think Daggerheart can do everything. It's not rules light, it's not "death is cheap", it doesn't support detailed...
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Campbell reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D General Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford Join Darrington Press with Like.
I don't think Crawford and Perkins were wooed away by Darrington. I think they left, had some ideas about what they wanted to do, and...
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Campbell reacted to Yaarel's post in the thread D&D General Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford Join Darrington Press with Like.
Regarding the Daggerheart mechanics, looking at it for the first time, I like how it deletes Constitution as an ability ('trait'), and...
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Campbell reacted to definiteFreakyFishGuy's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Heh, I drafted and deleted some version of this comment over-and-over because I couldn't get the wording quite right. But that is the...
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Campbell reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
No. The GM decides if the cook is there, or not, based on whether the rules tell us that the burglar's attempt to break in went well or...
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Campbell reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Yet I talk about Classic Traveller quite a bit, which (as I play it, and I think on the strength of the rules text) plays more like...
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Yup "Give You a Golden Opportunity" is part of "when to make a move," along with "They Do Something that Would Have Consequences." You...
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Campbell reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I'm getting a bit fed up with the implication that I'm lying about a game that I know pretty well. But I've quoted some of the text just...
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Campbell reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Agreed. At least I can't think of a game where it or something very similar wouldn't be reasonable. Sure, I agree with that assessment...
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Campbell replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..The line of discussion came out of an example of @pemerton provided of his Burning Wheel game in a response to a point unrelated to fail...