Micah Sweet's latest activity
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Micah Sweet reacted to MichaelSomething's post in the thread Common Pitfalls in Game Design with
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Maybe forcing the player to search for and use weird dice IS one of the points of the game... -
Micah Sweet reacted to clearstream's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
That's inaccurate. Our conversation about minions was initiated by your post @ing me and characterising mine which was about the...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
It's passing rare that the PCs run into 20 creatures at once that aren't one-hit wonders even with their full hit points. Last session...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread Shadowdark Finally Played Shadowdark with Like.
I don't think you played "wrong". I think NN identified correctly that you played AD&D in more Trad style, as opposed to most OSR being...
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Micah Sweet reacted to mamba's post in the thread Ben Riggs: 'The Golden Age of TTRPGs is Dead' with Like.
that would explain groups not switching, but games at conventions? I expected those to almost exclusively use the current version as...
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Micah Sweet reacted to CommodoreKong's post in the thread Ben Riggs: 'The Golden Age of TTRPGs is Dead' with Like.
I wonder if the issue is that there’s too little different in 2024? I stopped playing around the OGL crisis but from what I’ve seen 2024...
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This is where you get lost. Because THIS is the assumption of some of the play. You use stealth, you use diplomacy. You'll note that...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Retreater's post in the thread Shadowdark Finally Played Shadowdark with
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I think if they don't have a solid grounding, that you're going to have the experience I had at the convention. Maybe they watched a lot... -
Micah Sweet reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Oh, right. People were fighting tooth and nail for it not to be narrative and instead gamist. I didn't see @Umbran in that group, though.
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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.
Whether or not that was the intent (and they were often not used that way), that was my point. Minion ogres no longer ogres, they're...
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No dude, this is false its honestly not that hard at all.
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread Shadowdark Finally Played Shadowdark.Do you really think everyone who's run SD without a solid grounding in the texts you mentioned has suffered "TPK after TPK"? Do you...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread Does Anyone Care? (Cosmere RPG).I can see that being a problem for some people. For me, fiction is fiction.
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Micah Sweet reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread Does Anyone Care? (Cosmere RPG) with Like.
I did but I'm only talking about as they impact my viewing (i.e. by cancelling shows prematurely etc.), unless they're really bad. Apple...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread What are your thoughts on TTRPGs with non-standard dice?.Other people seemed to get what I meant, or in any case only you have expressed confusion. Of all the games you listed, the only ones...