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I find Savage Worlds combat can be a slog if the players treat it like D&D combat, ala everybody just tries to deal as much damage on... -
dbm reacted to zakael19's post in the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e? with
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Yeah. I had to read the minion rules multiple times to fully absorb them - but basically they’re a pool of HP, and so if the total... -
dbm replied to the thread What gets me playing Draw Steel and not Pathfinder 2e?.That’s interesting. I haven’t read the Monsters book yet. Presumably that was a group of minions the Null attacked?
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dbm replied to the thread Which "Tactical" TTRPG Would Work Best As An X-Com Like?.I would agree; in my 30 years experience of GURPS 3e and 4e it is extremely tactical and one of the few games where players can apply...
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dbm reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread Which "Tactical" TTRPG Would Work Best As An X-Com Like? with Like.
What do you mean when you say it doesn't reward tactical play? Use the right set of optional rules, and you can expect the application...
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dbm reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread Which "Tactical" TTRPG Would Work Best As An X-Com Like? with Like.
When I ran a combat-focused X-Com game, I used GURPS. Half the missions were investigation, VIP protection, recon and generally more...
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dbm replied to the thread Sell me on Savage Worlds.The book recommends (core p199): “A good fight for a party of heroes is two Extras per hero plus an enemy Wild Card leader with roughly...
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dbm replied to the thread Sell me on Savage Worlds.Features like Unstoppable, Hardy, Resilient / Very Resilient, and large size mean even an Extra can be extremely hard to take out.
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There was a trend for a while, I wouldnt say was just rules lite, but experience specific. Instead of generic do anything systems, folks...
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dbm replied to the thread Sell me on Savage Worlds.When I am running supers with Savage Worlds the Inverse Rules of Ninjas applies - a solo foe is likely a Wild Card but a team of enemies...
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dbm replied to the thread Sell me on Savage Worlds.I haven’t played ETU, only read it. My understanding is a trope of the genre is finding an enemies weakness so you can exploit it and...
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dbm reacted to zarionofarabel's post in the thread Will the complexity pendulum swing back? with Like.
Yeah, the newest "Pandemic" version, a LotR themed title, is FAR more complex than original Pandemic. In fact, almost all later versions...
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dbm replied to the thread Will the complexity pendulum swing back?.Board Game Geek refutes that premise. All the highly rated games are pretty complex. The top 10 games on BGG have an average ‘weight’...
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dbm replied to the thread Will the complexity pendulum swing back?.They are, Exhibit A … Draw Steel. And there are many reasons, already discussed in this thread, which mean creating a new crunchy game...
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dbm replied to the thread Will the complexity pendulum swing back?.There are always new ideas and new ways of using existing ideas. That applies to crunchy games as well as light weight ones.