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Micah Sweet reacted to W'rkncacnter's post in the thread Level Up (A5E) Removing Pointless Death (+) with
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wererats are only cr2! what level was the party??? -
Micah Sweet replied to the thread Level Up (A5E) Removing Pointless Death (+).Bad luck. Did the paladin not see what happened to the rogue? Seems they could have potentially waited for the rogue to do their thing...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread When Is a RPG "Complete" From a Publishing Perspective?.A game is done by default whenever they stop making it, but generally I'll keep buying a game I like so long as it is recognizably the...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Jacob Lewis's post in the thread The Many Faces of Roleplaying: How ‘RPG’ Became Everything and Nothing with Like.
Well, I intended it as good-natured ribbing, thinking @Micah Sweet might wear this like a badge of honor. He did not see it that way, so...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Jacob Lewis's post in the thread The Many Faces of Roleplaying: How ‘RPG’ Became Everything and Nothing with
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Tell me about it. I didn't expect to hit a nerve with any of this, but I suspect there's another reason for it: I'm only getting likes... -
Micah Sweet replied to the thread The Many Faces of Roleplaying: How ‘RPG’ Became Everything and Nothing.Yeah, I don't believe "sports" and "rpg" are the same level of generalization (though both generalize of course).
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Micah Sweet reacted to Jacob Lewis's post in the thread The Many Faces of Roleplaying: How ‘RPG’ Became Everything and Nothing with Like.
I think you were on to something at first, but that comparison doesn’t hold up under closer scrutiny. “Card game,” “board game,” and...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread The Many Faces of Roleplaying: How ‘RPG’ Became Everything and Nothing with Like.
I highly, highly, highly recommend the book (The Elusive Shift by Jon Peterson) because, um, it's awesome. And also because it really...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Jacob Lewis's post in the thread The Many Faces of Roleplaying: How ‘RPG’ Became Everything and Nothing with Like.
@Umbran I appreciate the engagement, but I want to clarify the focus of the essay. This isn’t about gatekeeping or arguing that people...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Jacob Lewis's post in the thread The Many Faces of Roleplaying: How ‘RPG’ Became Everything and Nothing with Like.
I think it’s exactly where the ambiguity comes from. If the defining feature of an RPG is “taking on an individual and exploring their...
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Micah Sweet reacted to GobHag's post in the thread The Many Faces of Roleplaying: How ‘RPG’ Became Everything and Nothing with Like.
VtM is a terrible example of 'picking a lane' it failed so much in it that it created the Forge.
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Micah Sweet reacted to Reynard's post in the thread Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+] with Like.
My brother spent a lot of money on it, AFTER reversing a previous vasectomy (new wife). My wife and I adopted our kids, and even though...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Retreater's post in the thread Level Up (A5E) Removing Pointless Death (+) with Like.
"Maybe" the challenges are beyond the level guidelines. I have a few issues: 1) Running adventure modules "by the book" - which...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread The Many Faces of Roleplaying: How ‘RPG’ Became Everything and Nothing.Of course, not every RPG uses these labels to describe their game, and the biggest one kinda uses all of them, so confusion and clashing...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Jacob Lewis's post in the thread The Many Faces of Roleplaying: How ‘RPG’ Became Everything and Nothing with
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1. Introduction — The Problem of the Label The term roleplaying game has come to mean many things and, in doing so, has come to mean...