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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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hawkeyefan reacted to soviet's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Ironically this offers a good source of distinction. When a 'modern' game has lots of players or releases it is a victim of a syndrome...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Campbell's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I find the entire concept of general use games versus specialized games to be one of the more silly ideas in the hobby because it...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Campbell's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
A fair of PbtA games are not the result of what I would call intentional design. You can often see it when the basic moves are basically...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Aldarc's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
How do you believe the manner in which they have been suggesting it has been "dangerous" or intended to create conflict?
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hawkeyefan reacted to loverdrive's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Honestly, at most PbtA games I scream "what the hell are you doing?!" and I'm famously a big fan of the Apocalypse World. It's very...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Aldarc's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
It's hardly dangerous to call something "modern" in an informal online discussion, but claiming that doing so is "dangerous" is...
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hawkeyefan reacted to loverdrive's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Then within a discussion of tabletop games, such a definition is useless, it describes nothing. Time has no relation to quality, or even...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Campbell's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I obviously prefer games built around vision where everyone (including the GM) feels like they are playing the same game. I think that...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Campbell's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Other than intentional design how would one describe designing from a vision and only including mechanics that contribute to the...
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hawkeyefan reacted to loverdrive's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I'm proposing a definition of what "modern" (or, rather, "modernization") means in a thread about finding a definition of "modern". My...
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hawkeyefan reacted to RenleyRenfield's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
Naw... There is absolutely no functional difference between what WW calls a ST vs what D&D calls a GM. Neither system has mechanics...
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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.
That's a good point, and I definitely agree with your last sentence. When I wrote that last night, I was thinking of the difficulty of...
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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.
There are two problems with that: 1. He may have pushed the dungeon pretty hard, but there was also a heavy focus in parts about...
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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.
You start to have serious questions about the purposefulness of design when you see a bunch of independent subsystems for different...