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I wasn't actually trying to do that. I was just agreeing that many players have an "with my shield or on it" mentality. Stories that... -
dbm replied to the thread Wolfenstein TTRPG Coming From Modiphius.Specifically, concessions are the player agreeing to their character being ‘taken out’ of a scene and in return they get some agency on...
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dbm reacted to Lord_Blacksteel's post in the thread Vampire the Masquerade: Love the setting but not the system with
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A fair number of RPGs these days have "chase rules" that put some mechanics on pursuit and evasion. That's probably a good place to... -
Yeah, honestly, I tend to think that if you want a measured damage model (i.e. one that buffers a sudden death/takeout result)...
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dbm replied to the thread Let's Talk About Metacurrency.Draw Steel addresses the ‘what are HP’ question head-on by having Stamina as the thing which gets whittled away. It is explicitly...
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dbm replied to the thread Let's Talk About Metacurrency.I like a well implemented meta currency system. They are all over the place these days so that’s fortunate for me, I guess. The...
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dbm replied to the thread Vampire the Masquerade: Love the setting but not the system.Another vote for Savage Worlds as an option for urban fantasy but with some more crunchy combat. The latest version of the Horror...
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I might try Savage Worlds (using material from the horror and super powers companions) or, if you want something especially crunchy and...
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Keeping the thread alive: Sunday’s session the players did 4 tag team rolls over the course of just under 3 hours, 3 of them in the...
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dbm replied to the thread Let's Talk About Metacurrency.I seem to recall Hackmaster 5th Editon (no relation to D&D5e) uses this kind of action tracking. Might be worth checking out it you...
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dbm replied to the thread Wolfenstein TTRPG Coming From Modiphius.Concessions in Fate model this, though the players really need to buy-in to the concept for them to work. There is too much ‘carrying my...
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I found myself rotating back to the more "open" games I was used to in the nineties, the ones that didn't got totally overboard with the...
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dbm replied to the thread Let's talk about system options versus character options..I have thought about this a lot over the years. First, there is no one best answer in my opinion, and second multiple options can and...
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dbm replied to the thread Press Savage SLA Industries Worlds Coming Soon.Didn’t play SLA Industries myself but I do remember it from ‘back in the day’. As a Scottish publication maybe it had more market in the...
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dbm replied to the thread Dual Role Games.GURPS does this with templates and lenses. Templates are recipes / pre-spent points to create a certain type of characters, while lenses...