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Campbell reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Vincent Baker on narrativist RPGing, then and now with
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Yeah, I agree, narrativist play and 'narrative mechanics' aren't the same thing. -
Campbell reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Vincent Baker on narrativist RPGing, then and now with Like.
Here is something Vincent Baker wrote a bit more than twenty years ago <lumpley games: Roleplaying Theory, Hardcore>: After setup, what...
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Campbell reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread Daggerheart Sold Out in Two Weeks, Has Three-Year Plan in Place with Like.
I wouldn't call 5E a particularly tactical game (and Thank God for that), but more of a strategic game of resource attrition. And for...
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Campbell reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread Why do you play games other than D&D? with Like.
Sure! How something feels likely plays a big part in how much they like it. I just think mistaking that feeling for some kind of...
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I've got doubts even about the first bit of that last sentence - there are elements of the "story" in Torchbearer, like driving off...
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Campbell reacted to thefutilist's post in the thread Why do you play games other than D&D? with
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If you’re into more simulationist play then the Brindlewood method seems your best bet. The causality of the setting is brought into... -
It's maybe worth saying that in real life mysteries are not created. They exist but they have not been authored. Being authored means...
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Campbell reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread Why do you play games other than D&D? with Like.
I don’t think it does. A mystery show? A mystery novel? Sure. But I know how you also don’t like the idea of a story, so I don’t know...
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Campbell reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread Why do you play games other than D&D? with Like.
For me, I just object to the elevation of one gaming approach as being “closer” to the real thing. It’s just silly. In both cases...
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Campbell reacted to RenleyRenfield's post in the thread Why do you play games other than D&D? with Like.
Brindlewood Bay gets a lot of press for trying something new for the whole investigation mystery process. I think it fails utterly to...
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Right. This is my point, and the basis on which I expressed doubts about saying the solution is "created" rather than "discovered". Nor...
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For me, "system" is not primarily about the dice used or the rolling method. Core to system is how the GM frames scenes/presents...
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Campbell reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread Why do you play games other than D&D? with Like.
If genre is being used as a fairly high-level term, to refer predominantly to general setting norms (hard sci fi, gritty fantasy...
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Campbell reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread Why do you play games other than D&D? with Like.
What I'd phrase it as is Hero is no worse than most trad games for investigation--but that's very much damning with faint praise.
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Campbell reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24 with Like.
I would care if someone said "let's play Axis and Allies and then busts out a Clue board, Monopoly tokens and the Pop-O-Matic™️ bubble...