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hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Playing "storygames": Mobile Frame Zero - Firebrands; and Showdown with
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I tend to regard "storygame" as a bit of a scare quote category by default - it's like Greg Stafford calling Prince Valiant a... -
hawkeyefan reacted to Aldarc's post in the thread Sunday Nonsense: Which TTRPG Systems Survive with Like.
I'll just say that Fate and Powered by the Apocalypse are the two "systems" beyond the behemoth of f20 games that made me rethink how...
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hawkeyefan reacted to thefutilist's post in the thread Playing "storygames": Mobile Frame Zero - Firebrands; and Showdown with Like.
Given what I know of your groups tastes, I think you'd all love it. I really enjoyed the tragic romance is ended up being. There was a...
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Presently Running: Dragon Heist (a5e/D&D 2014, 2025): Alexandrian (remix) structure; added The Curse of Trollskull Manor to Chapter 2...
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hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Playing "storygames": Mobile Frame Zero - Firebrands; and Showdown with Like.
Showdown The first thing to do in this game is to settle on a genre. We agreed on Napoleonic-era duel between nobles, although our...
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hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Playing "storygames": Mobile Frame Zero - Firebrands; and Showdown with Like.
Mobile Frame Zero - Firebrands With three players, the rules required one character from each faction: the on-world Bantreash nobles...
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hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Playing "storygames": Mobile Frame Zero - Firebrands; and Showdown with Like.
Today I played a couple of "storygames" online, with @thefutilist and (in one of them) @Manbearcat. The first (with three players) was...
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hawkeyefan reacted to zakael19's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Like.
Even in cases where we might take some time in a BITD etc game to discover what's happening next, that's been in the context of "what...
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Right. The decision is which way to go or which door to try and open. Analogous to tactical decisions in combat. Then the die is...
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That's wonderfully elegant.
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In Wuthering Heights, you roll on your age ("oldness", as the translation from the French has it): To test his wisdom, one should roll...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out.Well, when asked to provide an example of a game where “we stop the narrative to sit around and decide what would be cooler to have...
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hawkeyefan reacted to darkbard's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Like.
Surely you understand that BitD is not in any way conducive to "writers' room" play. Your citing a singular GM preference and your own...
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hawkeyefan reacted to zarionofarabel's post in the thread What mechanics or subsystems do you use regardless of the game you are running/playing? with Like.
I tend to use all knowledge skills in all games the way knowledge skills (Wises) work in Burning Wheel. In most games a knowledge skill...
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hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Like.
A situation isn't a path. In Burning Wheel, a player can also establish key elements and/or trajectory of a scene, via Circles and Wises.
