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hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with
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This is interesting. Over the past few years, I've had exchanges on these board where some posters talk about verisimilitude not by... -
hawkeyefan reacted to Aldarc's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I think that verisimilitude remains important for modern audiences but it's hardly uniform. While it is a trite point for me to make...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Aldarc's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I feel like we have touched on a number of interesting topics in this thread, but this thread may not be the best place to discuss them...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread Which are you, The plan everything out GM, or the Ad lib?.I just don’t accept that a game is better if there is more prep. Some games benefit from more prep than others, absolutely. But no...
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I would make use of Kevin Crawford's Ashes Without Number settlement rules. The base game including these rules is free on DriveThruRPG...
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hawkeyefan reacted to aramis erak's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Classic Traveller intends NPCs to be generated as PCs. That's 1977. That's pretty old school... Supplement 1: 1001 Characters (1979)...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Bagpuss's post in the thread Which are you, The plan everything out GM, or the Ad lib? with Like.
A lot depends on the system, and the style of game I want to run. There are some games where you have to ad-lib, that are very player...
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hawkeyefan reacted to tabletopjess's post in the thread Enclave: the diceless, yet mechanically deep, narrative roleplaying game with Like.
Enclave is a diceless narrative roleplaying game, but don’t mistake it for being rules light! Storytelling is everything in Enclave...
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hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Torchbearer 2e - actual play of this AWESOME system! (+) with Like.
When the PCs entered the Forgotten Temple Complex, I rolled a 13 for the town event: Dimly lit portal. You pass an open shrine and see...
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hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with
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If the NPC Elf can stumble over this book in his youth, why can't the PCs? Why are only PCs obliged to adventure in order to find it? -
hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I never said there was. I know the (Gygaxian) AD&D rules pretty well. What I said, which you quoted, is this: There is a clear process...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Aldarc's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
In some respects, they also exist in reaction to 3e D&D, and how that game was commonly being played in praxis: i.e., mechanics first...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.Dungeon/Exploration Turns. These dictate resource management and the possibility of random encounters, key aspects of dungeon...
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hawkeyefan reacted to zakael19's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
It does appear in B/X and OSE at least, and most NSR games I've seen? Core dungeon procedure: Turn starts, decide Actions Check for...
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hawkeyefan reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Exactly. The Forge and the OSR were both branches that were in direct repudiation of Hickman-style storytelling that dominated in the ‘90s.