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Campbell reacted to thefutilist's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with
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The agenda and principles are hard, in so much as they do tell you how to generate fiction. They’re soft in that they can be replaced... -
Campbell reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
This is very true and as a result the agendas do function more like mechanics in some ways, I agree. The problem is that there isn't...
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Campbell reacted to Morrus's post in the thread 1 Shot Campaigns, and throw away characters. with Like.
I play quite a lot of one shots and short campaigns. It lets me play lots of different games. Like watching a movie instead of signing...
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Campbell reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Systems are just compilations of mechanics. Advice crosses the line into mechanics anywhere that "should" or "best practice" in a...
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Campbell replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.Principles (at least in Apocalypse World) not advice or suggestions. They are instructions. The game says, "Always say what your...
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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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Burning Wheel assumes that the players and GM will work together establishing setting context, starting situation and unfolding... -
Campbell reacted to pemerton's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Like.
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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Campbell reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Love.
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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Campbell reacted to RenleyRenfield's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Like.
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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Campbell reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Like.
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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Campbell reacted to thefutilist's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Like.
it's a really pithy way to point to the difference. I like it.