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Crimson Longinus reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with
Haha.
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Crimson Longinus replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.Yeah. The core element of RPG play is collaborative storytelling, and it does not really require much rules. And the goal of the game is...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with
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I'd say that unified core mechanics is what I'd consider to have been modern in the 1980s - and even D&D has been on this style for half... -
Crimson Longinus reacted to JohnSnow's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
For me, "Modern" game design means "streamlined" and not having different fiddly subsystems for everything. Do I have to look something...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Huh, well, I don't think I completely agree. My first disagreement is that contract bridge players are somehow the straight equivalent...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Mustrum_Ridcully's post in the thread D&D General Hypothetical: D&D without ability scores (or bonuses) with Like.
I don't know if it could be D&D without ability scores, because i don't feel that strongly about sacred cows than others do. For some...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Gladius Legis's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Playtests Four New Mystic-Themed Subclasses with Like.
So it took them 12 years to figure out that to make a spellcasting Monk, they should've just made an Eldritch Knight-equivalent subclass...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Shiroiken's post in the thread D&D General [+] For (hypothetical) 6e: Which arcane caster class should be the "simple" one? with Like.
Sorcerer needs a niche, and being the "innate" caster gives it a reason to be the simple design.
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mearls has some Interesting Ideals about how to fix high level wizards. with Like.
I generally like the complexity of 5e, and most of my complaints are some legacy systems (pact magic, wild shape, subclass progression)...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Who's making that assumption here, and why?
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Crimson Longinus reacted to J-H's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mearls has some Interesting Ideals about how to fix high level wizards. with Like.
I think part of the "problem" here is the trouble people have keeping track of their spells. That's not a "the spells are bad" problem...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Minigiant's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mearls has some Interesting Ideals about how to fix high level wizards. with Haha.
I don't think ending before the problems occurs counts as solving them.
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Crimson Longinus reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mearls has some Interesting Ideals about how to fix high level wizards. with Like.
At a minimum, don't publish any subclasses where the mechanics can't support the flavor. Shadow magic is awesome, but it requires, yeah...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to THEMNGMNT's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mearls has some Interesting Ideals about how to fix high level wizards. with Like.
Oh, don't even get me started on "themed spell lists". I ran a 1-20 level campaign with a shadow sorcerer...and guess what? Sorcerers...
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Crimson Longinus reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mearls has some Interesting Ideals about how to fix high level wizards. with Like.
Mike has been saying all around the internet and in threads here recently that their heuristic in designing and evaluating the survey...