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I find that too. Earlier today I was reflecting on playing Ironsworn solo and coop, and it struck me that there is probably a fourth...
Jul 21, 2025
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In this case, it was a grievance against my character from the NPC. I'd agree that collaboration was needed, and we did, just during...
Jul 21, 2025
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I forget the precise details, but this argument involved the treatment of at least two previously unspecified NPCs, at least one...
Jul 21, 2025
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To give an example from a few years ago. Game is 13th Age set in Greyhawk. My character is an elven princeling playboy and is in...
Jul 21, 2025
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I can certainly see where you are coming from I suspect that's not how we actually narrate failures in a lot of cases. The examples of...
Jul 17, 2025
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The argument may well be because the rules are silent on how to construct a "hit table" of this sort (this kind of thing is, ironically...
Jul 16, 2025
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How is it not playing the game right? All prep is being honoured. All mechanical interactions are being resolved in accordance with the...
Jul 8, 2025
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Are we allowed to call principles what we like? Like Blorb, for example? Secondarily, it's entirely possible for the game to be being...
Jul 7, 2025
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So, stop engaging about it? If you aren't interested, just drop the topic?
Jul 7, 2025
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And how in the first use of the term, spell levels and character levels are not the same thing or gained at the same rates (in all but...
Jul 7, 2025
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What does level mean?
Jul 7, 2025
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I'd agree with that - I think it's probably possible to come up with "worst practices" but I don't think best practices would be...
Jul 7, 2025
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Or alternatively it's advice against certain styles of GMing, for example "soft railroading" where successes aren't honoured because...
Jul 7, 2025
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Right - this is something that makes sense in the context of games in a specific context where leveraging certain types of power alters...
Jul 7, 2025
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We could for example be trying to evoke a certain genre - in 7th Sea for example it cost build points to have character flaws but you...
Jul 6, 2025
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