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Fenris-77 reacted to zakael19's post in the thread Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc... with
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FITDs are constantly coming out, I’m pretty sure Blades ‘68 (which is partially a skin on partially a redux of Blades) was on the front... -
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Looks at Fate. Looks at Celebrim. Shakes head, sadly. -
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FATE is my favorite whipping boy when I want to talk about badly designed systems that fail to achieve their declared objective. It...
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Fenris-77 replied to the thread Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc....I'm pretty sure that's Shadowdark at the mo.
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Fenris-77 replied to the thread Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc....It's more a FitD thing I think, that's where get things like the specific downtime phase and the scouting and approach stuff before a score.
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Fenris-77 replied to the thread Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc....A different set of considerations have to deal with genre. Some games, like dungeon crawl games for example, have very clearly definable...
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Fenris-77 reacted to dbm's post in the thread Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc... with Like.
I think it is useful to differentiate between mechanics and procedures. D20 games have a solid mechanic in d20 + mods vs DC. And they...
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I like games that have an expectation of a "Downtime" with a different zoom level built in, be that via loose procedures or genuine...
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Fenris-77 reacted to Nytmare's post in the thread Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc... with Like.
I'm a huge fan of how Torchbearer (and to a lesser extent the rest of the Burning Wheel family) handles it. You have unified methods...
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Fenris-77 reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
At least as a player, I tend to see Clocks as a way to focus my decision-making. Does my little dude prefer this risk or that one? I...
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Fenris-77 reacted to Umbran's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Why would you (or at least your character) not have some goal you/they are trying to achieve? Like, when does anyone take actions that...
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Fenris-77 replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".The limiting obstacles and eeking out advantage is definitely a thing, but it's done not by direct reference to the mechanics, but by...
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Fenris-77 reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
Micah, I am 100% sure you are aware that you would hate playing a game like Blades.
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Fenris-77 reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
I don't really see clocks as a mechanism for avoiding consequences. I see them as a method for staggering the consequences out over the...
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Fenris-77 replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".Welp, I'm all out of explanation on the topic, so we can disagree in some kind of companionable fashion.