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Careful sir! This makes me want to turn this into a Cortex appreciation thread ... ;) I could flood it with things I love about Cortex! -
Voidstorm is definitely one of the best iterations of the "stuck in Hell" blasted zone that Blizzard usually does once an expansion...
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I think magic typically gets a pass in these situations because it’s not the game telling a player how a character feels so much as how... -
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I can't tell you how glad I am that it's not in the D&D forum. There are so, so many thread topics that can apply to far more games than...
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Campbell reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Yes! It's just as much of a mistake to try to bolt those kinds of deterministic social mechanics onto D&D as it would be to play, say...
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Not pemerton so I can't speak for him, but one difference between 'choosing stuff [that happens]' and 'choosing to do stuff' might... -
Campbell replied to the thread Let's Talk About "Intended Playstyle".So, Burning Wheel is not particularly narrow in terms of premise. As long as characters have beliefs they are willing to fight for...
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Reached the Voidstorm last night, which has the plot I think we assumed the rest of the zones would have front and center. Amusingly...
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Campbell reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Spire actually assumes a lot more agency for the players in terms of making broad societal changes a potential outcome of their actions...
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These posts prompted some thoughts. A couple of them also relate to this post: How is it decided (i) what the quest is, and (ii) where...
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It all comes down to three things: player input, GM input, and rules input. These three things interact in different ways in play, and...
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Campbell reacted to GrimCo's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
In game like VtM, whole point is that you are fighting for control. Mechanics represent the Beast. And sometimes Beast wins. Player...
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Campbell reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
I'm not going to speak of D&D specifically, but I'll say there are games and subsets of games that signing onto them absolutely...
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That’s why I’ve tried to use actual examples from play. The Knight and Squire situation from Spire, my character Clara from The Between...
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Campbell reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Because one of the two people involved seems to think it’s a possibility. I’d say the same if a player had an idea that the GM didn’t...