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Celebrim replied to the thread OSR The Gygaxian Naturalism Appreciation Thread.I've always loved how you could use the 1e Monster Manual (either the first or one and two) as a campaign world generator and actually... -
Celebrim reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread OSR The Gygaxian Naturalism Appreciation Thread with
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I always marveled at the details put into trolls. For example, modern trolls just tell us this about regeneration: "Regeneration. The... -
Celebrim replied to the thread Should traps have tells?.I'd been thinking of buying TOR, and wow did you just completely kill my enthusiasm for doing so. Well, it's not the way they should...
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Celebrim replied to the thread Should traps have tells?.I disagree, and notably so does The Angry GM. While the Angry GM doesn't well define what a good trap is and conversely what does make...
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I think that if you're playing a game in which a significant goal of play is the back and forth of investigating a dungeon using...
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Celebrim replied to the thread Player skill vs character skill?.Because if you try to simulate the mental skills of the character then very quickly these will need to overrule or supplant the choices...
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Celebrim replied to the thread Player skill vs character skill?.Because eventually if you follow that logic the player ceases to be the player of the character and becomes the observer. If you...
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Celebrim replied to the thread Should traps have tells?.Not sure about the rest of the thread, but I don't mean any of those things. A tell is best illustrated by the scene in "Monty Python's...
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Celebrim replied to the thread Should traps have tells?.I went back and read Lanefan's contributions, and I think you are misreading him. Lanefan plays a game that is like mine bizarrely his...
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Celebrim replied to the thread Should traps have tells?.Things are bad if I think you are too wordy. No, I really don't like his writing. I think he seems like he'd be an A+ GM, assuming...
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Celebrim replied to the thread Should traps have tells?.I hope you aren't too offended if I am not that impressed with The Angry DM. There are a lot of nuggets in his essay that are...
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Celebrim replied to the thread Should traps have tells?.Yes, but also no. An area with traps should have an early tell or else be the sort of place where you would expect to have a trap...
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Celebrim replied to the thread Game Balance, what is it to you, why is it important, and what if you all but threw it out?.Game balance is the juncture of two ideas. That everyone at the table should have fun and that the game is a social game and that the...
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Celebrim reacted to Umbran's post in the thread Game Balance, what is it to you, why is it important, and what if you all but threw it out? with Like.
Overpowering the PCs is easy for the GM. It takes no skill, nuance, understanding, or imagination for a GM to dial an adversary up to...
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Celebrim reacted to billd91's post in the thread Game Balance, what is it to you, why is it important, and what if you all but threw it out? with Like.
If dragons are so skewed that they're essentially off the table as far as being a reasonable challenge for PCs to take on, why stat them...