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The personalities involved and why make a big difference to the primary goal of the game - everyone have fun. And that's really going... -
I think my ratio of systems read to systems played is something in excess of 10:1, and I've played a lot of different systems. My first...
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If you want people to try a new system, you have to find the fun. Teaching rules, getting rid of ingrained concepts, all that stuff is...
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To share my perspective, learning a new rules set is a lot like work because the rules arent what I enjoy about gaming. The rules are...
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If these are long-time D&D players, they might be having as much trouble with the different mindset as with learning new rules (though...
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It isn't a "narrative". It is an experience some people actually have. I would prefer to have the actual presentation of that fact, so...
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This is the key question. Are they just playing for the most pluses, without paying attention to description or narration? Are they just...
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Played in a fair amount of L5R campaigns and a couple non European based fantasy games. I think the biggest problem is an unfamiliarity...
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Wuthering Heights is a French RPG, though - as the name suggests - it has been translated and adapted to English. I first learned of it...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to Jacob Lewis's post in the thread Worlds of Design: Rolls vs. Points in Character Building with
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Rolling for attributes is exciting for the five minutes you spend hoping to beat the odds. After that, you'll spend the rest of the... -
DrunkonDuty reacted to Bohandas's post in the thread Campaigns in a nutshell. Adventures in a sentence. with Like.
Hellection Its election time in the first layer of Baator. Lord Bel doesn't care about anything except war so he's left it to his...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to Envisioner's post in the thread General Worlds of Design: Is Fighting Evil Passé? with Like.
An addendum to that rather long post, based on some conversations further upthread - I absolutely despise the concept that someone is...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to Umbran's post in the thread General Worlds of Design: Is Fighting Evil Passé? with Like.
Um, rather than asking him or herself, maybe it would be better to ask their players if it would satisfy their players.
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DrunkonDuty reacted to jgsugden's post in the thread General Worlds of Design: Is Fighting Evil Passé? with Like.
Just as a note - Exploring these topics - in game - can be a good storytelling device. A 6 PC party is made up of PCs from Countries...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to billd91's post in the thread General Worlds of Design: Is Fighting Evil Passé? with Like.
I don't think good vs evil is passe at all in D&D and D&D-influenced RPGs. There's just a lot more nuance surrounding it and the...