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No worries, and thanks! Well, what you described was more specific than "adding to the setting" - you said " the GM said: 'It is a... -
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This is why, upthread, I posted that "I find the use of "PbtA" as if it were an informative label pretty hopeless too. . . . I don't... -
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Well, in some ways its not. If you see them as similar or same, then I don't have much more to add. My point was to merely debunk how...
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Campbell reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Love.
I don't see any reason why authorial control mechanics couldn't be a kind of mechanic to discuss. I don't think they define narrativist...
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Campbell reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Love.
Yeah. To your point, I think just broadly tarring PbtA games and Storypath (the system used in all the recent Onyx Path games) as...
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Campbell replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.Lots of games get called narrative games for a variety of reasons. The only real unifying principle is that they structured differently...
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Players and their characters coasting to a halt hasn't been an uncommon event for me; I ran into it bigtime with an Alternity campaign I...
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Campbell reacted to thefutilist's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Our last conversation about this was interesting. It got me thinking the constraints + authenticity are really the important part in...
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it's a really pithy way to point to the difference. I like it.
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Campbell replied to the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out.Yeah. The lists are only a starting point, and milestones often get adjusted as part of the ongoing conversation of play. New goals are...
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Campbell replied to the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out.So, the process my group uses is about avoiding some of the prat falls we have experienced in more open ended play. Stuff like making...
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I don’t think that the approach being advocated for is one where PCs cannot change their motivations or adopt new ones based on what...
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Campbell reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I'll accept there have to be some assumptions. A card game often assumes that the players know what it means, for instance, to shuffle...
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Campbell replied to the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out.One of the things we at our table to coordinate more player driven play is establishing one personal milestone/goal per player character...
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Campbell replied to the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out.At some tables. At others we work together to establish these things. Like if you refuse to coordinate your efforts to orchestrate in a...