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CCF07 replied to the thread Worlds of Design: The Great Divide.I like a mix of both but more on the side of vicarious adventure. Call it 65%/35%. All smash and grab isn't interesting to me but I...
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CI think most of my groups lean strongly vicarious but it is a continuum. We like immersion though more so in building their story as...
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CJust a point about the length of genre fiction. The thing is, before 1980, there was just so little genre fiction at all. Pre-1980...
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CCF07 reacted to Abstruse's post in the thread Freebies, Sales, and Charity Bundles for August 24, 2025 with
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CCF07 reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with
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CCF07 reacted to Staffan's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with Like.
Sure, I mostly meant that since 1e was published in 2017, just before Discovery came along, TNG-era is sort of the assumed default of...
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CCF07 reacted to aramis erak's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with Like.
If the GM is on the ball, one can run it in any era. I've run TOS, Disco, and post-DS9 campaigns, it's not a big issue. It does work...
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CCF07 replied to the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1.I played in a long D&D campaign where we had higher level main PCs and a cast of henchmen. Playing the henchmen was often super fun!
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CCF07 reacted to MGibster's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with Like.
Having secondary characters worked for Ars Magica and I can see it working for other games. It might not be a bad idea for some games I...
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CCF07 reacted to Joerg Baumgartner's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with Like.
While the honorverse has keyhole space anomalies connecting distant systems in almost no time, there is a more pedestrian FTL drive "in...
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CCF07 replied to the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1.It is and it can be fun to inhabit one of the secondary crew for a while, especially if the GM really sets things up for it. For...
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CCF07 reacted to Staffan's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with Like.
Sure, it's not ideal, but it can be a solution for (a) no-one having the right skill for the situation and (b) a player's character...
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COne structure I have used is that all humanoids evolved from the same prehistoric ancestor (essentially Homo habilis) and they were...
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CIt also having "baseline" helps the fantastic to stand out. Spock or Worf work better as characters when they are contrasted to the rest...
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CI have no scientific evidence to support this, but I'm guessing that many people (human and otherwise) gravitate toward playing...