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JohnSnow replied to the thread Free League Announces Dragonbane: Trudvang.I'm in the same boat on Dragonbane except for two things: 1) I don't like the ducks and 2) Roll under systems just don't jive with my... -
JohnSnow reacted to Willie the Duck's post in the thread Comparing Modern Gear to Historical with
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Ditto on read but not watched. I like the notion. I'm also rather envious (these guys are doing what I'd love to be doing rather than... -
I did not watch the video, but read through the article with pictures. Certainly worth looking through. It does show that old-timers...
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Someone was kind enough to link this elsewhere, I thought it'd be of interest for players, GMs, and aspiring game designers when...
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JohnSnow replied to the thread Comparing Modern Gear to Historical.I read a really interesting "true adventure" book called "The Brendan Voyage" (Tim Severin) about his attempt to recreate the voyage of...
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JohnSnow replied to the thread RPG systems frozen in time.A LOT of modern games do this, and the good ones usually update their price lists periodically to reflect inflation. Savage Worlds comes...
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JohnSnow reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread Let's Talk About Character Resources To Power Abilities with Like.
I like resources that are spent and refreshed in what seems to me to be a realistic manner (more or less), if those resources are...
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@Bill Zebub Don't take this the wrong way, it's not attack or anything like that. But from this, and posts on other topics, i get the...
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JohnSnow replied to the thread Let's Talk About Character Resources To Power Abilities.I like short rest mechanics, and only like daily abilities if they are adequately explained by the virtue of a good night's sleep. I...
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JohnSnow replied to the thread Let's Talk About Metacurrency.Okay, I love the topic, but just can't bring myself to read 54 pages of comments. I like meta-currency, but I hate there being a ton of...
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JohnSnow reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Spoilers What do casual fans get wrong about Star Wars? with Like.
Comics fans, for one, seem to have moved the opposite direction as many Star Wars fans, in large part -- and I don't think this is an...
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JohnSnow reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread Spoilers What do casual fans get wrong about Star Wars? with Like.
That’s the group I’m in. I was a nut for Star Wars a few decades ago. Gobbled up everything until around the time they killed Chewie in...
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JohnSnow reacted to Reynard's post in the thread Spoilers What do casual fans get wrong about Star Wars? with Like.
That the best world building for the Star Wars universe was done by a combination of comics and tabletop RPGs.
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JohnSnow replied to the thread Space Travel: a Sketch.For what it's worth, even in Star Wars, we have multiple examples of characters getting hit by lightsabers without them being cut...
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JohnSnow replied to the thread Shadowdark Unless I am wrong.I think the most logical interpretation of rolling for stats in an RPG is that they represent the range of characteristics that can be...