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Jacob Lewis reacted to TrainedMunkee's post in the thread 2024 D&D Core Rulebooks Off to "Strongest-Ever" Start for D&D Books with
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Populous ideas don't tend to drive creativity, they reinforce the ideas that are already present. It takes creative thinking outside the... -
We had a really nice in-person Daggerheart game tonight. I found a new player via the metro area TTRPG discord (I keep an eye out for...
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Jacob Lewis reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread The Many Faces of Roleplaying: How ‘RPG’ Became Everything and Nothing with Like.
I don't think that this is quite fair (the bolded part). The main problem is that we have this ... shift ... from wargaming to a new...
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Jacob Lewis reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread The Many Faces of Roleplaying: How ‘RPG’ Became Everything and Nothing with Like.
Yeah, I don't believe "sports" and "rpg" are the same level of generalization (though both generalize of course).
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Jacob Lewis reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread The Many Faces of Roleplaying: How ‘RPG’ Became Everything and Nothing with Like.
While I appreciate the OP, and anyone who makes the attempt to present an argument in the form of an essay ... I certainly hope that...
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Jacob Lewis reacted to Retros_x's post in the thread The Many Faces of Roleplaying: How ‘RPG’ Became Everything and Nothing with Like.
Did we though? I never heard someone thinking its not a generic label. As others pointed out its a term on a high abstraction level...
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Jacob Lewis reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread The Many Faces of Roleplaying: How ‘RPG’ Became Everything and Nothing with Like.
I highly, highly, highly recommend the book (The Elusive Shift by Jon Peterson) because, um, it's awesome. And also because it really...
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Jacob Lewis replied to the thread The Many Faces of Roleplaying: How ‘RPG’ Became Everything and Nothing.That’s a fair comparison, and I agree that broad categories aren’t unusual — language thrives on generalization. The difference I was...
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Jacob Lewis reacted to Kannik's post in the thread The Many Faces of Roleplaying: How ‘RPG’ Became Everything and Nothing with Like.
While I get where you are coming from, as noted by others this is such a broad issue across, well certainly the English language but...
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Jacob Lewis replied to the thread The Many Faces of Roleplaying: How ‘RPG’ Became Everything and Nothing.@Deset Gled I’m honestly not sure where all the hostility is coming from. I’m not raging against anything or trying to manufacture...
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Jacob Lewis reacted to Umbran's post in the thread The Many Faces of Roleplaying: How ‘RPG’ Became Everything and Nothing with Like.
There's a point here - in actual, practical play, we are generally going to select games and groups that match our own needs. If...
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Jacob Lewis replied to the thread The Many Faces of Roleplaying: How ‘RPG’ Became Everything and Nothing.I think that’s a fair read, and I’d agree the conflict rarely shows up at the table. Most people don’t argue about definitions...
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Jacob Lewis replied to the thread The Many Faces of Roleplaying: How ‘RPG’ Became Everything and Nothing.Well, I intended it as good-natured ribbing, thinking @Micah Sweet might wear this like a badge of honor. He did not see it that way, so...
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I was able to run the Quickstart adventure for friends at Gamehole Con. Everything went really well, and the resident CR fan laughed...
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I'm a third through the corebook (after playing one game as a player), and I'm still surprised how much I love this. I was never much...