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CCF07 reacted to Lakesidefantasy's post in the thread Worlds of Design: In the Shadow of Tolkien with
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My influence before Dungeons and Dragons was definitely Conan the Barbarian (Robert Jordan, et al.) I still haven't finished the Lord of... -
CSounds like an awesome career. Glad to see a fantasy reader get into literature. I liked that aspect of the game but mostly from the...
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CCF07 replied to the thread Worlds of Design: In the Shadow of Tolkien.When I first got into D&D I tried to figure out how to shoehorn Tolkien into it but pretty rapidly figured out that that wasn't actually...
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CI discovered Tolkien before D&D. Therefore I think D&D is nothing like Tolkien, despite the presence of elves and orcs et al.
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CWe had plenty of other novels to read and definitely didn't have more time! 😂 Tolkien had become a huge fad during this time period...
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CCF07 replied to the thread Worlds of Design: In the Shadow of Tolkien.I first read The Hobbit in 1979 and attempted Lord of the Rings in 1980. I was quite young... 3rd grade. I made it through The Hobbit...
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CCF07 replied to the thread Worlds of Design: The Simplicity Solution.Chargen in Champions is... special. It is definitely worth having someone who really understands the system to do that.
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CChampions comes to mind. Half the rulebook was descriptions of various powers characters could take during creation. Once creation was...
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CCF07 replied to the thread Worlds of Design: The Simplicity Solution.Absolutely true. The locked action economy of a lot of modern games (esp. 5E) have some benefits but they sure can prevent actions like...
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It’s also a non-issue in games with looser initiative like Daggerheart. Once any PC has the spotlight they can just say they’re...
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CCF07 replied to the thread Worlds of Design: The Simplicity Solution.Mike "Sly Fourish" Shea recently posted a video on this kind of thing. I tried using "side initiative" for a while to allow for that.
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CCF07 replied to the thread Worlds of Design: The Simplicity Solution.100%. Lots of things that make sense in the secondary reality don't fit in with the fact that there are people sitting around a table...
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There are a lot of ways to handle retreating that don't make it a fool's game; its just not particularly common to do so. As I noted...
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COne solution for the 'hard to retreat due to action economy' is to grant the retreating party a special retreat surprise action where...
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CI also think we need more nuance in the conversation when we describe a game as "crunchy" or "light". When people say "crunch" they...