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Of course there are classes dedicated to combat. You need them because combat as a fail state does not mean you can completely avoid it... -
Sure, combat as a natural consequence of failing at some other goal. If you want moderate amounts of combat to be a regular feature...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread Shadowdark Finally Played Shadowdark.The fact that a game is designed with a particular playstyle in mind is unconnected with whether or not "most players" actually want...
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My library of printed RPG works, which at one time was vast, is gone to the Great Landfill, but of the dozen or so books remain, City of...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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They can. Process sim is about simulating the world as it is, diegetic things in it, so if the world in question contains dragons and... -
Yeah, but that was a dumb idea, for two reasons: 1) The comics universe is moribund with canon. Trying to stay aligned with it all the...
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Why wouldn't they? We had an entire Loki series showing us how there's analogs for people across universes! If there's a block on...
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Being for the entire world makes it hard to section out a space for themselves. And they conquered that challenge at the expense of...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Like I've said before, I think that is the only coherent definition of simulationism. Edwards made a big mistake in lumping genre...
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Yeah, so, I can see that choice. The tentpole Avengers movies have a problem, in that they have so many characters in them, there's...
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They're trying to save him because he's their son. I found the magic baby MacGuffin a good way to flip the stakes. Yeah, sure...
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While I am notorious for being easily entertained, I absolutely loved this. Some of the shots in the movie came directly from the comic...
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Micah Sweet reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This tangent was taken from discussions of fail forward techniques. There's nothing wrong with those techniques (even if I don't really...
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Micah Sweet reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Have you ever played billiards? You know, hit the white ball with a cue trying to hit another ball into a pocket, called pool in the...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
You do not understand what simulation means. Simulation aims to mechanically represent the significant contributing elements that exist...