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Ggban007 reacted to payn's post in the thread Upcoming AAA/AA CRPGs or story-based RPGs (updated 15/04/2025) with
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I've held off on Wrath as its an AP I skipped int he PF1 era. I wasnt too keen on mythic rules and its storytelling. Though, ill check... -
Ggban007 reacted to payn's post in the thread Upcoming AAA/AA CRPGs or story-based RPGs (updated 15/04/2025) with Like.
You are right. I am definitely looking for things that are difficult to convey in a trailer clip. That might end up being a really good...
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Ggban007 reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread Upcoming AAA/AA CRPGs or story-based RPGs (updated 15/04/2025) with Like.
I would note that Kingmaker is probably their weakest game by some margin, so if you liked that, you'll probably like their other stuff...
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Ggban007 reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread Upcoming AAA/AA CRPGs or story-based RPGs (updated 15/04/2025) with Like.
The Expanse isn't generic, I totally agree, but what makes it distinctive isn't stuff like how individual combat works in that setting...
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Ggban007 reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread Upcoming AAA/AA CRPGs or story-based RPGs (updated 15/04/2025) with Like.
The Expanse is fairly generic to start off with. It was based on a Traveller campaign after all. It has the same narrative ancestry as...
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GI just finished reading Jon Peterson's Playing at the World 2E, Volume 1, and I'm a bit surprised at my own blasé reaction to it. I...
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Ggban007 reacted to JLowder's post in the thread D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly with Like.
One of the constants at TSR, no matter who owned and ran the company, was the inability to deal fairly or constructively with creators...
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Ggban007 reacted to Alzrius's post in the thread D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly with Like.
Minor correction, here: Gary was in the process of moving to California in mid-1982. According to Flint Dille in his book The...
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Ggban007 reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly with Like.
I definitely remember this - as kids who didn't always have regular D&D games, that fiction was a connection that we still had to it. A...
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Ggban007 reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly with Like.
In '82? Absolutely not. Gary didn't (edit, correction) move into the mansion for another year, and he didn't hire Lorraine until '85...
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Ggban007 reacted to RealAlHazred's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
"Texan" implies larger, though.
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GFor no particular reason, I decided to start one of Booktube’s 100-book challenges this month. This is about what the name suggests...
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Ggban007 reacted to BookTenTiger's post in the thread D&D General I ran a good one-shot last night (post-mortem) with Like.
I met a couple recently who likes playing D&D, and they asked if I'd run a one-shot. It took about three months to find a date (life...
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Ggban007 reacted to Sacrosanct's post in the thread D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly with Like.
I can believe it. Going back to late 80s me, and I only knew of a handful of non-D&D fantasy authors, and most of them were for books...
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Ggban007 reacted to JLowder's post in the thread D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly with Like.
Most folks don't remember or maybe just don't know how stunning the growth of TSR's fiction program was in the late 1980s and early...