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JohnSnow replied to the thread Where Complexity Belongs.I find it interesting that Pathfinder 2e, Nimble and a few other games have figured out the sweet spot for actions in a single round is... -
The rules to Monopoly are not that long, but players still ignore some rules. It's more of an issue of "what are the players willing to...
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JohnSnow reacted to Reynard's post in the thread How Complex Do You Prefer Your TTRPG Systems In General with
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I think there is a space in the market for a slightly crunchier, slightly less deadly, slightly more heroic version of Shadowdark. -
JohnSnow replied to the thread How Complex Do You Prefer Your TTRPG Systems In General.I think that there's already a ton of games vying for this general space, among which I would include both Vagabond and Nimble, but I've...
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JohnSnow replied to the thread How Complex Do You Prefer Your TTRPG Systems In General.Based on the scale given, I voted 5. If D&D 5e and SWADE are a 6, and Shadowdark/OSR D&D is somewhere around 4, I want something...
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JohnSnow replied to the thread Let's Talk About Supers RPGs (Especially Ones Good For Cons).As someone who still owns Mutants & Masterminds 2e, is there anything in 3e that people feel is dramatically improved? One of the things...
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JohnSnow reacted to Yaarel's post in the thread D&D General So how do Half-Elfs feel different to Elfs? with Like.
This Tolkien lore correlates with 5e 2024 mechanics, where a mixed-species character can choose either parentage for the statblock. A...
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JohnSnow replied to the thread D&D General So how do Half-Elfs feel different to Elfs?.I have always felt Half-Elves work best when you think of them as D&D's "Dunedain." They are descended from Elves, live longer than...
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JohnSnow replied to the thread Other D&D Variant Let’s list the 5E variants.DC20 by the Dungeon Coach certainly counts. There's a ton of rules hacks and other games out there that nominally share 5e's DNA, but...
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JohnSnow reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
See my post. Without some rules and resolution as far as I'm concerned, its not a roleplaying game, its just freeform roleplaying that...
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JohnSnow reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
D&D wasn't the only one though; there was a pretty fair bit of special-casing for no obvious reason for quite a long time.
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JohnSnow reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
100% this. WEG d6 system and Toon both had unified mechanics in the 80s, and I'm sure there's a ton more in the 90s. It's not a modern...
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JohnSnow reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
I'd say that unified core mechanics is what I'd consider to have been modern in the 1980s - and even D&D has been on this style for half...
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JohnSnow replied to the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"?.Because "better" is subjective. I find streamlining to be what I think of as "modern." I don't (personally) like looking up tables. I...
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JohnSnow replied to the thread OSR OSR RPGs with no class system.I'd also say that you could freely pilfer things from most other OSR subsystems to work with Knave. For instance, I think Shadowdark's...