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Campbell reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with
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@mamba, I've quoted a series of your posts. And am trying to work out what your position is. At some points, you seemed to be talking... -
Campbell reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with
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For me, "play to find out what happens" - if it is to be meaningful - has to include the GM. So I see any notion of the GM having a... -
Campbell replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.@mamba Working through those moves as a GM requires a creative process, reasoning about the fiction and making choices about how to...
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Campbell reacted to Kichwas's post in the thread What rpg system would you use for a 60+ session fantasy campaign? with Like.
Probably Legend in the Mist. The reason being that it has no leveling system. Character progression is about change rather than...
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Campbell reacted to Staffan's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
There's also the issue that attrition-based adventuring is boring. I want encounters to be (somewhat) dangerous in and of themselves...
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Campbell reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
And it does work really well when that rhythm is followed, in my experience. And it works fine when it is not followed, it just makes...
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Campbell replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily.Or that people just don't want to play that way (with lots of filler encounters that exist basically for attrition). One thing that...
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Campbell reacted to thefutilist's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
@soviet basically the above. Although my interpretation of, Apocalypse World at least, is that it's far more 'vanilla narrativist' than...
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Campbell replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?."Play to find out" in the way Vincent laid out obviously does not consider how a D&D GM prepares because it's not meant to describe D&D...
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Campbell reacted to payn's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
One of the pitfalls of these discussions is the idea a simulation is total reality with no game, and that a game is all game with no...
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Campbell reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I don't disagree with you about the PbtA mechanics, nor do I believe that the GM can make up whatever they want is a mechanic (and I...
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Campbell reacted to soviet's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
OK, I see what you're saying. Thank you for elaborating. As I understand you you're talking about the difference between (broadly)...
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Campbell reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I feel like we're on the verge of rehashing the same points all over again. "Play to find out" is a strong signal that you as a player...
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Campbell reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I feel like we're talking past each other. The GM fudging point is orthogonal to what I'm talking about; the sentence I quoted above...
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Campbell reacted to soviet's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Would you say though that it's mandatory to have the GM of such a system take a 'no fudging, no thumb on the scale' position? I don't...