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hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.I’ve seen that at times. I think it shows a lack of understanding on the part of the person saying it.
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hawkeyefan reacted to RenleyRenfield's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
You know what made it "click" for me? I went back to D&D and failed rolls resulted in nothing happening. I went back to running WoD...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out.Okay… but all (or maybe most) of the hooks are GM created content. Choosing from a menu of options certainly gives players choices of...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out.In my experience, they are certainly connected. I don't think that makes it a necessity. One can have a player-driven game that is an...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out.Yeah, I think the one common thread we're seeing amongst the folks posting about success of player-driven campaigns is that they all...
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hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Vincent Baker on narrativist RPGing, then and now with Like.
Over the past few days I've been prompted to think a bit more about this. When I think of "sitting back and letting the game come to...
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hawkeyefan reacted to TheAlkaizer's post in the thread What Systems Could Use More Attention? with Like.
I have my issues with Spire, but it is still an incredibly evocative game and will never leave my shelves.
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hawkeyefan reacted to Ralif Redhammer's post in the thread What Systems Could Use More Attention? with Like.
Yeah, Spire is a striking game, with a deeply detailed setting and the mechanics to back it up.
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hawkeyefan reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Like.
Site-crawling can also be done improv-style. I just generally frame it as "Ok, who built this? What were they using it for? Who is...
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hawkeyefan reacted to zakael19's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Like.
Just to "yes, and" this with a commercial product that I keep returning to, this is more or less what the Neverwinter Campaign Setting...
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hawkeyefan reacted to zarionofarabel's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Like.
I know reading and running Burning Wheel helped alot procedurally due to the fact that BW is purpose built to run player driven sandbox...
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hawkeyefan reacted to zarionofarabel's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Like.
I don't play online. Honestly I have no idea how to work all that kind of stuff. The basics of prep is to get the players to setup a...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Truename's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Like.
A stream is a lot to ask, but I’m genuinely interested in learning more. I’d like to do more player-driven campaigns, but the prep work...
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hawkeyefan reacted to zarionofarabel's post in the thread When Player Driven Adventures Don't Pan Out with Like.
I've been running player driven games for more than 30 years. My games always have consistent narrative momentum that makes sense. They...