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I3 is also really good, though I do think I6 is the more sophisticated of the two. I think the big problem with I3 is it's not intended... -
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So there is a lot to unpack here. First, I don't think people usually do a lot of roleplay when making a sand castle. The thing I...
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That's intuitive but also probably based off 40 years of doing this wrong. Because my experience with players is that they only tend to...
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FFarealmer3 reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread OSR Modules with the best layout & presentation with Like.
Agreed. But it's also precisely how you describe a room that you try to present the most obvious features last. Why? First, because...
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FFarealmer3 reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread OSR Modules with the best layout & presentation with Like.
There is a map. A really good one, actually. And I would say the only confusing thing here at all is K61 isn't actually marked on the...
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It's.... fine. It's a great teaching aid for novice GMs, and I would have very much enjoyed it at say 16 for a lot of reasons. The...
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The essay I remember would have been something like Scry magazine in the late 1990s. I'll see if I can find it, but I don't know if I...
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FThere was a thread going around recently about "Did you play AD&D RAW?" and my answer was summarized as, "Well, we tried most of the...
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Oh this whole post is worth it just for the Caillois' classification terminology, which I've somehow managed to avoid in all my study of...
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I think it is important to stay grounded in the reality of the thing and this post is a really good reset to the discussion. One of the...
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Problems like this are one reason I don't think it's practical to abstract things to "supply". To continue the "Oregon Trail" analogy...
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FWell, at some level it is always seat of the pants arbitrary. There is always going to be some subjectiveness to it when you allow...
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I'm not denying the existence of players with complex aesthetics of play. In fact, the existence of complex aesthetics of play was and...
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FIn general, yes. I could always imagine exceptions. If it's effectively permanent duration and hard to treat (a curse that is hard to...
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I think it's a highly relevant response to the statement: "I think attempting to hew too close to realism is going to be...