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I am not sure I have ever encountered a "roll for intent" game, at least not one that doesn't want a fairly detailed explanation of... -
Lucas Yew reacted to Morrus's post in the thread Ben Riggs: 'The Golden Age of TTRPGs is Dead' with
Wow.
Ben Riggs, D&D historian and author of Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons has... -
Lucas Yew reacted to Cergorach's post in the thread Wizards of the Coast Head Explains Benefits to D&D Franchise Model with
Haha.
Some of us read: Wizards of the Coast Head Explodes... ;) -
Lucas Yew reacted to Iosue's post in the thread A History of TRPGs in Japan – Part 8 – Stranger Aeons (2013-Present) with Haha.
I should note an amusing quirk of trademark and licensing regarding Call of Cthulhu. Naturally, Chaosium holds the trademark for "Call...
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Lucas Yew reacted to Blue Orange's post in the thread A History of TRPGs in Japan – Part 8 – Stranger Aeons (2013-Present) with
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Arigato gozaimasu, Iosue-sama! I'm happy to see the Bihoruda get some exposure. I'm only sorry I don't get to see the anime-style... -
Lucas Yew reacted to Iosue's post in the thread A History of TRPGs in Japan – Part 8 – Stranger Aeons (2013-Present) with Like.
So, I’m not entirely sure this is the reason, but it just so happens that Lovecraft’s pre-1927 writings went into the Japanese public...
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Lucas Yew reacted to Iosue's post in the thread A History of TRPGs in Japan – Part 8 – Stranger Aeons (2013-Present) with Like.
Let’s go back a little bit to 1998. F.E.A.R. publishes the third edition of Tokyo N◎va, called Tokyo N◎va: The Revolution. In that RPG...
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Lucas Yew reacted to Iosue's post in the thread A History of TRPGs in Japan – Part 8 – Stranger Aeons (2013-Present) with Like.
The surprise hit of Sword World RPG in 1989 had two notable effects. For one, there was a notable explosion of games, from a wide...
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Lucas Yew reacted to Iosue's post in the thread A History of TRPGs in Japan – Part 8 – Stranger Aeons (2013-Present) with Haha.
Group SNE went gangbusters in the late 1980s, but there were many other developments, as well. First, in 1986, Hobby Japan released a...
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Lucas Yew reacted to Iosue's post in the thread A History of TRPGs in Japan – Part 8 – Stranger Aeons (2013-Present) with Like.
This next part will focus more on GroupSNE, partly because it is probably the most influential organization on TRPGs in Japan, but also...
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Lucas Yew reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread A History of TRPGs in Japan – Part 8 – Stranger Aeons (2013-Present) with Like.
d10s barely existed in the early 1980's. I played D&D for YEARS before we ever saw a single d10. ALL d20's in those days were numbered...
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Lucas Yew reacted to Iosue's post in the thread A History of TRPGs in Japan – Part 8 – Stranger Aeons (2013-Present) with Like.
One day in January, 1983, Hitoshi Yasuda’s phone rang. It was, to his surprise, Koichi Sato, president of Hobby Japan. “Yasuda-san,” he...
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Lucas Yew reacted to Iosue's post in the thread A History of TRPGs in Japan – Part 8 – Stranger Aeons (2013-Present) with Like.
So if we go back to the primordial beginnings of TRPGs in Japan, if one looked around a local toy store or hobby shop in Tokyo, and that...
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Lucas Yew reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Sword World to Get Official English Translation with Like.
Yes. Even for the time, it was very enthusiastically "our three existing friends really like Asia, so we don't need to talk to any...
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12 is also cleanly divisible by 3. For whatever that's worth.