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Gorgon Zee replied to the thread Should traps have tells?.Yep — I would paraphrase your thought by saying that you consider only the ability to change the fiction a meaningful decision, not the... -
Gorgon Zee replied to the thread Should traps have tells?.Agreed. But your statement was "there is no player agency, no decision-making", which I disagreed with. I do agree that the type of...
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Gorgon Zee replied to the thread Should traps have tells?.Well, this is a standard skill check so there are actually a number of choices to be made, and some RP also. Additionally there are...
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Gorgon Zee replied to the thread Should traps have tells?.As a general design principle, I like to have any game effect have at least two ways to interact with it, one which is mostly...
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Gorgon Zee replied to the thread TTRPG Resolutions For 2026.My resolutions are: Catch up on write-ups of the last 6-8 sessions of my Great Pendragon Campaign, and stay up-to-date as I finish it...
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Gorgon Zee replied to the thread Do you observe Thanksgiving?.I feel that people should not celebrate anything without acknowledging that what you are celebrating may be a source of pain and harm to...
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Gorgon Zee reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread Game Balance, what is it to you, why is it important, and what if you all but threw it out? with
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What kind of balance are you after? Mechanical balance between PCs? That’s dead simple. Most rules light games have it built in. Hell... -
Gorgon Zee reacted to Reynard's post in the thread Game Balance, what is it to you, why is it important, and what if you all but threw it out? with Like.
"Balance" is important when their is competition. This might not be direct competition -- it might be competition for spotlight time...
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Gorgon Zee replied to the thread ALIEN RPG Launches New Kickstarter.If you say "System X is good for genre Y", I'd assume that you are talking about the genre in the general sense. If you want to...
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Gorgon Zee replied to the thread ALIEN RPG Launches New Kickstarter.I don't have much experience, or honestly strong interest with OSR outside a fair amount of AD&D play back in the day. I own Traveller...
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Gorgon Zee reacted to TheHand's post in the thread Natural 20/1 Crit fails and Crit successes, How do you handle them? with Like.
With most of the posters here where I use whatever crit mechanics the system calls for. I always liked D&D 4e’s nat-20 crit rule where...
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Gorgon Zee replied to the thread ALIEN RPG Launches New Kickstarter.Well, that might be overstating it. Without the aliens, it's hard to see what would recommend it as a space opera game over other...
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Short campaigns are vastly underrated. Give me 6 solid 4 hour sessions to cover what might be a single TV season. Yes please.
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Gorgon Zee reacted to Bagpuss's post in the thread Best practices for easy-to-run modules [+] with Like.
4th Ed which was mainly two page spread for encounters was really designed to make things easier for the DM. There were complaints at...
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Gorgon Zee replied to the thread Modules: Made to Read vs Made to Run?.Hmmm. This is very far rom my experience of CoC modules. There are a lot of CoC source books that have this style of presentation, but...