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hawkeyefan reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with
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oD&D through B/X and 1e did have intentionality; Gygax was just very bad at explaining what he was trying to do and the saving throws... -
hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I'm on the side that thinks that OD&D (and Gygax's AD&D, at least up until the end of the PHB and for good chunks of the DMG) had a...
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hawkeyefan reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I can't really speak to Palladium, as I have little experience with it. TMNT seemed reasonably coherent to me, but I'm not going to rely...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.I don’t know what “use it against the DM” means. It’s not a concern I have when I GM. Regarding what players like, I think it varies...
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hawkeyefan reacted to kermit4karate's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Like.
I'd put it more as a preference than something necessary for myself. I prefer to have something prepared. How much and what varies day...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.Of course it does. I mentioned the Palladium system earlier in the thread. I don’t feel a whole lot of intentional design went into...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
He was talking about it from the position of designing a game and what he thought was important during that process, so games before...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Campbell's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
So I view success with consequences as very distinct from degrees of success and failure in games like RuneQuest. Sure, in both there is...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
The main comment was in the context of advocating for designing to address specific questions rather than, say, cobbling together...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
But that's not a specific intention. That describes every halfway complete game ever. The question is what kind of experience it was...
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hawkeyefan reacted to loverdrive's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
"Creating a fun game" is creating aimlessly, I think. That's not a meaningful goal. And there are a lot of examples of individual...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
A bit of a tangent, but this is the second time that "intentionality" has come up in conversations about game design that I've been...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Autumnal's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Hmm. Separate thoughts, first on designers I’d expect any reasonably fair observer to acknowledge as important trailblazers whether or...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
This is why I tend to refer not so much to "modern games" as "post-Forge games". The actual Forge games are barely remembered and a lot...
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hawkeyefan reacted to RenleyRenfield's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I am stating that Burning Wheel and other such games are obscure, not mainstream, and don't do any of the mechanics I suggested as well...