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Enaknomolos reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with
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I agree. Modern as applies to RPG mechanics means little outside of academic discussions of gaming history, and is dangerous to boot, as... -
Enaknomolos reacted to Umbran's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
There's a bit of a gap between "knowing the difference between them" and "actively denigrating one" though. General purpose tools are...
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Enaknomolos reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
The word "modern" is an indication of placement in time, not of quality. It is an era, not a spectrum of greatness. In short, I suppose...
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Enaknomolos reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
oD&D through B/X and 1e did have intentionality; Gygax was just very bad at explaining what he was trying to do and the saving throws...
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Enaknomolos reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
This sounds like the sort of thing I was talking about earlier, where "intention" is being linked to making sure every mechanic overtly...
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Enaknomolos reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Well, it's easy to say that you should have a goal when you're designing a mechanic. I tend to say something along these lines...
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Enaknomolos reacted to billd91's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Honestly, this kind of thing just tells me that people discussing "specific intentions" vs "creating aimlessly" are incredibly pretentious.
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Enaknomolos reacted to zarionofarabel's post in the thread What rpg system would you use for a 60+ session fantasy campaign? with Like.
Pendragon and The Great Pendragon Campaign! At least, most of it anyway as ideally it would be one year per session and the campaign is...
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Enaknomolos reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I have suspicion that what's really being seen here is the tendency of Forge-derived games and their descendants to drill down on a...
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Enaknomolos reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I actually do consider there to have been an approximate time boundary when what I'd call modern RPG design coalesced from a collection...
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Enaknomolos reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Almost every time someone points out a specific, so-called "modern" innovation, it's something that has been around forever; the main...
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Enaknomolos reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
To juat throw this out there: I think Classic Traveller's skill system was very ahead of it's time in 1978, and Pendrafon was waaaaaay...
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Enaknomolos reacted to Gorgon Zee's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I started a long answer and then realized it boiled down to two words: "Not Simulationist". Older systems used mechanics as a way of...
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Enaknomolos reacted to TheSword's post in the thread Critical Role Critical Role Season 4 DM says encounters will not be balanced. with Like.
I find it interesting that encounters not balanced have negative elements around sudden player death but the flip side also applies and...
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Enaknomolos reacted to TrippyHippy's post in the thread Traveller: the iconic science fiction roleplaying game with Like.
I think this is true of a lot of aspects of Traveller design - they quietly revolutionised aspects of play through quiet inference...