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hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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For me, RPGing is not a poor cousin to virtual reality. It's a creative, imaginative activity. The various resolution systems in a RPG... -
hawkeyefan reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
As far as flashbacks are concerned, these seem to be rather ubiquitous in RPGing. For instance, here's a post from a couple of weeks ago...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Pedantic's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
I actually think "meta" is sort of the wrong label for that reason. We tend to wrap up causality and character/player transparency into...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".I suppose I can see that. But I also think “Stress” is broad enough to kind of mold to the situation. Like, I’ve done things in life...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Fenris-77's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
The breadth of application is actually what has me keeping it close to 'meta'. Not quite meta, but pretty close. The thinnish diegetic...
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hawkeyefan replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".Although I come down on this closer to @zakael19 I think it’s important to point out that Stress is not used solely for Flashbacks. Its...
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hawkeyefan reacted to zakael19's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
The GM is assessing the cost of doing the thing that's worn you down between when you starting planning for the score and the current...
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hawkeyefan reacted to zakael19's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
It’s a currency, but not one that’s fully meta like idk Hope and Fear from Daggerheart or Fabula Points or whatever. It’s certainly less...
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hawkeyefan reacted to zakael19's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
In the context of flashbacks, they represent the stress of making things line up perfectly so they’re just-so in the moment now. That...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Scott Christian's post in the thread City Supplements - What do we like? with Like.
Nice. Here is the calendar I built for one of my cities (Frostcliff) and its surrounding region. It's a six-day week (named after the...
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hawkeyefan reacted to JConstantine's post in the thread City Supplements - What do we like? with Like.
Merely an observation, but something that is overlooked with the factions in BitD is that the citizenry of each district are their own...
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I have a first draft of a calendar and festivals done. I decided to use the ancient Egyptian calendar as it's something different and...
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hawkeyefan reacted to RenleyRenfield's post in the thread Let's Talk About "Intended Playstyle" with Like.
I work with or work for, many of the people who created some of these games, and Vampire is a great example. Design language has...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
By the way, back on the subject of railroading, I was just at my local bookstore looking at the Vecna adventure path by WotC. In the...
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hawkeyefan reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Let's start with a basic premise: the player says, "Can I tell if the NPC is lying?" and the GM says, "Let me have a Wisdom(Insight)...