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JJoerg Baumgartner replied to the thread Resource Management, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying About Rations and Love Mana.Resource management can be abstracted as resistance rolls, with the starting difficulty depending on successes during preparation, and...
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JJoerg Baumgartner replied to the thread Adapting Kane by Karl Edward Wagner.I guess I would go for a BRP variant for some grit, possibly inheriting from the Moorcock adaptations whose heroes/antiheroes tend to...
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JJoerg Baumgartner replied to the thread Why do you play games other than D&D?.Unless a fantasy setting is written for D20 (levels, Vancian magic) or magic is a rare thing mainly cast by NPCs (e.g. Lankhmar), D20 is...
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JJoerg Baumgartner replied to the thread Why do you play games other than D&D?.Other than in D&D-inspired derivates, I haven't seen "class", "level" or XPs in any of the fantasy that I like to consume. BECMI Basic...
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JJoerg Baumgartner replied to the thread Are there any TTRPGs tailored to playing ordinary people trying to survive a kaiju attack?.Call of Cthulhu Great Old Ones are Kaiju that will drive you mad, but being (almost) helpless in the face of huge monsters is one...
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JJoerg Baumgartner replied to the thread What Do You Need From Publishers?.I expect from the publishers: 1) to ensure playability of a game system by clearing up unintended ambiguities and addressing/resolving...
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JJoerg Baumgartner replied to the thread Space Travel?.Piloting may be little more than inputting the target location into the navigation system. Maintenance of the ship systems might be a...
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JJoerg Baumgartner reacted to RenleyRenfield's post in the thread What makes setting lore "actually matter" to the players? with
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JJoerg Baumgartner replied to the thread What was your 1st RPG and what was your favourite campaign about or best memory?.My first non-solo tabletop rpg game I ever played (actually GMed for two other newbies) used the Fighting Fantasy 2D6 system plus the...
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JJoerg Baumgartner replied to the thread Space Travel?.This thread sent me into a rabbit hole of SF sources I more or less remember having read, read the rules, seen on screen or played that...
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JJoerg Baumgartner replied to the thread Peregrine's Nest: All in the Family.If you intend to play a sociopath, why not do it the Ferengi way with a huge network of cousins to exploit and run under the bus? Just...
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JJoerg Baumgartner reacted to pemerton's post in the thread What Does "Simulation" Mean To You? [+] with Like.
I laughed; but as I reflected I thought this is a really interesting reply that implicates a whole lot of assumptions that are present...
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JJoerg Baumgartner replied to the thread Worlds of Design: The Warship Trinity.As with wet navies, the means of travel decide how space navies work. Hardly any SF setting acknowledges the vast emptiness of space...
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JIsn't everything you just said after "Immersion is not something that can be discussed in a session zero" something that can be...
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JImmersion is not something that can be discussed in a session zero IMO. Its a very personal and introspective feeling at least in my...