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Micah Sweet replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".Two things: 1) I feel 1.5 years of genuinely playing a game counts as "looking at things to see if you find a way to like it". 2) what... -
Micah Sweet reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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They usually seem to have less objections to the starting rest state than they do expectations during play. The example I give (which... -
Micah Sweet reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Come on, man, making the assumption that they're doing this blind without any information about the risk/reward factor is at best...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
I certainly stopped going to one food chain (Boston Market) because they stopped carrying the thing I wanted there. You can argue that...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.Very much so. I want to play an RPG that has procedures for as many things that can happen in the setting as is practically possible.
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Micah Sweet reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
I guess I'm not interested in playing a RPG that has procedures for water voyages. That sounds dreadfully mechanical. I play games...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.For me, the simulation and setting logic of the circumstance is the good stuff.
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.Why should the procedure for handling a water voyage be different based on whether or not the acting character chose to do it?
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Micah Sweet reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Bluntly, the can very well capsize and drown. Sailboats and rowboats are vastly different beasts. Trying to operate a sailing boat in...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Tesral's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
I do. It is a preference, some people don't like. But for those that so, I have options. I started with 0e played all the way up to...
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Micah Sweet reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
I did use the word perceived upthread. What is important to note is that the game made some major changes. It's mechanics promoted a...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
To some extent, but I think its a little off to compare to things where networking factors don't have the huge impact they do on RPGs...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out."....yeah, to a degree.
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".Sure they were. Now the rules are less in line with his preferred play than they used to be. Popularity has nothing to do with it.
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out.".I am a fan of older editions of D&D. These are definitively more difficult to find players for the further they recede into the past. A...