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Flying Toaster reacted to mamba's post in the thread Shadowdark Finally Played Shadowdark with
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it’s not the rules light I was commenting on but that supposedly the characters should be weak, below average, sucking at things and... -
Flying Toaster reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread Shadowdark Finally Played Shadowdark with Like.
Combat is a fail state is like saying this game that I wrote rules for is 80% dedicated to the implementation of that fail state. What...
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Flying Toaster reacted to numtini's post in the thread Shadowdark Finally Played Shadowdark with Like.
That's the default in the SD games I've played in or run. In melee, thieves can spend a round outside of the scrum to hide then sneak...
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Flying Toaster reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread Shadowdark Finally Played Shadowdark with Like.
There are whole classes dedicated to combat. A large part of the rules are about fighting or what happens when you fight. This combat...
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Flying Toaster reacted to bloodtide's post in the thread Running multiple games in parallel? with Like.
I always use my own homebrew world and Multiverse, so that is not really an issue. Game 1 and 2 are set roughly at the same time...
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Flying Toaster reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread Shadowdark Finally Played Shadowdark with Like.
Yeah but everything I’ve read seems predicated on that early play style which feels more like a reaction than the actual play that was...
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Flying Toaster reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread Shadowdark Finally Played Shadowdark with Like.
This may a retroactive tenet of OSR play but it does not mirror my experiences in playing those older games at the time, and I think the...
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I don't know if lore is the "primary driver of mood and tone". I think mechanics can often drive mood and tone as well. Like, if the...
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I think 2nd edition was the first time I'd ever been disappointed in a new edition of a game I had previously enjoyed. I cannot...
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread Game Mechanics & Lore.Oops. Reading comprehension fail. 😀 When I think about my 1980’s B/X and AD&D groups, I remember that we noticed the areas where the...
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It's perfectly fine to have preferences. In another thread about the level band of most adventures, someone (sorry I can't recall who...
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Keep in mind here I was referring to the 2nd edition of Legend of the Five Rings and not AD&D. While I played some 1st edition AD&D...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Arilyn's post in the thread Shadowdark Finally Played Shadowdark with Like.
I never liked D&D back in the day because of the rapid character death, the horribly boring dungeons and the slow crawl of hitting every...
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread Game Mechanics & Lore.Every table is different. When the 2E PHB came out in 1989 we eagerly adopted it with no hesitation. I was already chafing at what I...
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The thing about "gritty low-fantasy" settings with visceral, brutal combat that I think a lot of people gloss over is the copious...