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DrunkonDuty replied to the thread Books everyone seems to love, but you just can't.I also liked The Old Man and the Sea. I saw the movie many, many years ago (Spencer Tracy? I think it was Spencer Tracy.) When I... -
DrunkonDuty replied to the thread Books everyone seems to love, but you just can't.Oh boy... so many... Ones that sucked from the get go: The Name of the Wind. I read one chapter. Utter drek. I think BookTenTiger has...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to BookTenTiger's post in the thread Books everyone seems to love, but you just can't with
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Two highly praised fantasy novels that I didn't just not get but wound up really, strongly disliking are: The Name of the Wind -... -
DrunkonDuty reacted to Gradine's post in the thread Books everyone seems to love, but you just can't with Like.
The Name of the Wind. The worst kind of self-indulgent fantasy wrapped in the world's most tedious framing device.
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DrunkonDuty reacted to ShinHakkaider's post in the thread Any crunchy RPG's out there anymore? with Like.
Okay I hear you and agree with you on that first part. I guess we all have very different thresholds for that. Personally I've always...
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I wrote a blog post aggregating my advice and experience in Managing DM Anxiety that I hope is useful and wanted to link it. I'm never...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to Argyle King's post in the thread Any crunchy RPG's out there anymore? with Like.
I think it's worth mentioning that crunch and complexity aren't always synonymous. I find that GURPS has the ability to be crunchy. But...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to aramis erak's post in the thread Any crunchy RPG's out there anymore? with Like.
The irony? Rolemaster is fairly simple, but massively crunchy. The majority of complexity is the sheer number of tables and the many...
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DrunkonDuty replied to the thread D&D General Survivor 5E - Fiends (Triple Header).DEMONS Babau 21 Balor 39 Baphomet 25 Barlgura 25 Bulezau 18 Demogorgon 24 Draegloth 17 Glabrezu 22 Goristro 21 Graz'zt 16 Hezrou 18...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to corwyn77's post in the thread How big are the biggest cities in your campaign world? with Like.
As has been said upthread, this is general I don't run D&D very often. Most of my games are in GURPS and semi-historical so they could...
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I love this question. It's one I struggle with myself. 'Cause the most realistic answers probably make boring fiction. The priorities...
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If you count CRPG, Ratkin from Wizardry are fun. They are noticeably mafia-like (Don Barlone?), though mostly PCs meet the street thugs...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to corwyn77's post in the thread Worlds of Design: What Defines a RPG? with Like.
Building something with Lego IS playing with it. That's the whole point.
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DrunkonDuty replied to the thread Any crunchy RPG's out there anymore?.I agree that less mathy systems are going to be more inclusive. But I disagree that they're a sign of tighter game design. I think that...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to aramis erak's post in the thread Any crunchy RPG's out there anymore? with Like.
Hero is, mechanically, much simpler, despite the similar page count. The actual meat of the system for use outside supers or magic...