Jacob Lewis's latest activity
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Jacob Lewis reacted to Nylanfs's post in the thread Hasbro Opens New Wizards of the Coast Video Game Studio in Montreal to Support D&D Franchise with
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Jacob Lewis reacted to LordEntrails's post in the thread Will the complexity pendulum swing back? with Like.
Well, admittedly I only got through page 7 but didn't see responses to these so... This, to me, is an extremely narrow view of...
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Jacob Lewis replied to the thread D&D General Stop Yapping, Start Playing: Trimming GM Descriptions.@DinoInDisguise I think the core of what you’re getting at—using fewer words and letting players fill in the gaps—is absolutely right...
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Jacob Lewis reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General Weapons should break left and right with Like.
Yes, but the statistics suck. There are only relative handful of people here, and we self-select for particular discussions. Listening...
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Jacob Lewis replied to the thread D&D General Games Economies.I think there’s a mix-up here about what “treasure” really means in the D&D loop. It was never just about gold. The real rewards were...
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Jacob Lewis replied to the thread D&D General Games Economies.It seems like the real issue isn’t that RPG economies are “broken,” but that they’re serving very different purposes depending on the...
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Jacob Lewis replied to the thread D&D General Weapons should break left and right.I'm just waiting for the flood of players to rush in here with a deep sigh of relief, finally able to say how much they've wished that...
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Jacob Lewis replied to the thread OSR How to make dungeon crawls interesting.I’m not sure what specifically ties this discussion to OSR games, but I do have some thoughts on dungeon crawls more broadly. The gaps...
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Jacob Lewis replied to the thread Will the complexity pendulum swing back?.The way I see it, we’re not looking at a pendulum swing so much as a branching. The industry didn’t collectively move toward...
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Jacob Lewis replied to the thread Which "Tactical" TTRPG Would Work Best As An X-Com Like?.I wasn’t going to get involved here because I didn’t want to interrupt anyone else’s fun, but this topic is too appealing for me to pass...
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Jacob Lewis reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread Critical Role Professor DM interviews Critical Role Cast with Like.
We also know that sometimes he and his team rush to build a set during the break, which is one of the reasons that they often break...
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Jacob Lewis reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread Critical Role Professor DM interviews Critical Role Cast with Like.
Is Daggerheart based off of D&D? From what I’ve seen, it’s based off of Critical Role. The mechanics seem fairly different. It’s a much...
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Jacob Lewis reacted to Vael's post in the thread D&D General Hit Points are a great mechanic with Like.
It's not perfect, it takes out 1-hit KOs off the board (kinda), but I am currently quite pleased with Daggerheart's HP system. Small...
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Jacob Lewis reacted to billd91's post in the thread Critical Role Professor DM interviews Critical Role Cast with Like.
Based on the interview, we know he DOES often have some prepped encounters and terrain builds that don't make it into the game because...
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Jacob Lewis replied to the thread Critical Role Professor DM interviews Critical Role Cast.I agree with your first point—that’s how it looks to many of us from the outside. But we also have to go back to what they said: the...