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Micah Sweet reacted to Steampunkette's post in the thread 3PP Release The Night of the Knife: A Campaign Quartet Adventure with
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Brigandine is the armor. Looks like this! Early D&D designers saw it and just saw leather with some studs in it, and knowing that... -
Micah Sweet reacted to GrimCo's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
Just to add a bit, from personal experience with mountains. When you do everything right and things out of your control don't screw you...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers.Yeah, if I had my way I would use more detailed rules for Supply than those to which Level Up defaults, but I don't have the right...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
Problems like this are one reason I don't think it's practical to abstract things to "supply". To continue the "Oregon Trail" analogy...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
I'm not denying the existence of players with complex aesthetics of play. In fact, the existence of complex aesthetics of play was and...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
I think it's a highly relevant response to the statement: "I think attempting to hew too close to realism is going to be...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
It very much depends on how the participants define fun. A player with primary (or sole) aesthetics of Fantasy is fulfilled by lots of...
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MERP (Middle-Earth Role Playing).
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If we're being technical it would have been AD&D after red box D&D. But more in the spirit of the question the answer is Teenage Mutant...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread What was your 2nd RPG?.My second RPG read was MERP. My second RPG played was TNMT & Other Strangeness I think, both after the "B" in BECMI and AD&D 1e.
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Micah Sweet reacted to LordBP's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
Yeah, reading military manuals on how much food/water is required by soldiers is always good if you want it to be close to real life...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers.How close is too close though? Everyone has their own line, and the only ones that should matter to you in your own game (which is what...
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Micah Sweet reacted to LordBP's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
I think you would have to have an idea in real life what each would be and then try to abstract it to a game rule. For water. You...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
I’d use a skill system. Each environmental threat prompts rolls against relevant skills. Only critical failures/successes would...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread Worlds of Design: From Zero to Hero.Fair enough. To each their own, but I generally take play too seriously to enjoy fourth wall breaking unless comedy is the point.