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hawkeyefan replied to the thread Why do you play games other than D&D?.Because this: Isn’t how reality works. I understand that you have a preference, and that’s cool… you can enjoy whatever you like... -
hawkeyefan reacted to Aldarc's post in the thread Games You Rarely See Played "Correctly" with
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I had this problem when playing UNO with my partner for the first time. I knew that our respective families played the games in... -
hawkeyefan reacted to John R Davis's post in the thread Games You Rarely See Played "Correctly" with Like.
PBTA This game is easy to play wrong. Needs a certain approach which I seen not happen Plus there are a lot of games supposedly PBTA...
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hawkeyefan reacted to soviet's post in the thread Games You Rarely See Played "Correctly" with Like.
I think what you're describing here is a failure of game design. Vampire and Cyberpunk 2020 are great games and I love them both but...
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All good, if I've understood you correctly that's the point I'm trying to make. 'Solving the GM's puzzle' may feel subjectively like you...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Why do you play games other than D&D? with Like.
I'm going to say this at the risk of pissing you off, the truth, or value, of solving a mystery in an RPG has very little to do with...
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I also think, as a real life investigator, that 'putting together a half-cocked theory that matches most of the available data, and...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread Why do you play games other than D&D?.Sure! How something feels likely plays a big part in how much they like it. I just think mistaking that feeling for some kind of...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread Why do you play games other than D&D?.I don’t think it does. A mystery show? A mystery novel? Sure. But I know how you also don’t like the idea of a story, so I don’t know...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread Why do you play games other than D&D?.Sure. And I can tell you which feels more like it to me personally. That’s my point. It’s a matter of preference. Neither has more in...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread Why do you play games other than D&D?.For me, I just object to the elevation of one gaming approach as being “closer” to the real thing. It’s just silly. In both cases...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Why do you play games other than D&D? with Like.
I think that there is an ongoing issue in how people interpret and talk about RPGs that hits on this very issue - the extent to which...
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hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Why do you play games other than D&D? with Like.
100% agreed with this. Solving a puzzle (like a crossword puzzle, or charades, or the extrapolation from CoC clues) is not like solving...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread Why do you play games other than D&D?.So a couple thoughts in this. First, and simply, describing the process of Brindlewood Bay as “a random check” is way off. It’s like...
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hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Why do you play games other than D&D? with Like.
In CoC, the players are definitely playing characters who (try to) solve a mystery. In some CoC play, that's the bulk of what the...